מוֹצָא
mo.tsa
exit
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "mo.tsa" (H4161) is defined as "exit." It is used 27 times in the Bible, revealing its significance in various contexts. In its most basic sense, "mo.tsa" refers to the act of leaving or departing from a place, person, or situation. The word "mo.tsa" is used in a range of situations, from physical exits, such as leaving a city or a building, to metaphorical exits, like departing from a relationship or a way of life. Its usage implies a sense of movement or transition, often with a sense of separation or departure. This word highlights the importance of boundaries and transitions in life, underscoring the idea that change is a natural part of human experience. The frequency of "mo.tsa" in the Bible suggests its significance in the narrative and themes of the Old Testament. Its usage often accompanies themes of migration, exile, and spiritual transformation, underscoring the idea that exit and entry are intertwined concepts that shape the human experience.
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Occurrences in Scripture
27 total occurrences across the text
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Job 28:1“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
Job 38:27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
Psalms 19:6His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.
Psalms 65:8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
Psalms 75:6For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
Psalms 89:34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
Psalms 107:33He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,
Psalms 107:35He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
Isaiah 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah 58:11and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Jeremiah 17:16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
Ezekiel 12:4You shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. You shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go out into exile.
Ezekiel 42:11The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
Ezekiel 43:11If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.
Ezekiel 44:5Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
Daniel 9:25“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
Hosea 6:3Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Numbers 30:12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.
Numbers 33:2Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their starting points.
Numbers 33:2Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their starting points.
Deuteronomy 8:3He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 23:23You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
2 Samuel 3:25You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
1 Kings 10:28The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
2 Kings 2:21He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’ ”
2 Chronicles 1:16The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue.