motsa · going out, departure, source

What it means

motsa (מוֹצָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “going out, departure, source”.

What goes out: a going out, a departure, the place from which something comes (a spring, the east); also what comes out of the lips, what is said.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Where one leaves a place, or where the sun appears.
2. The place something comes from, like water welling up.
3. What comes out of the mouth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• going out ×5
• exits ×3
• comes out ×2
• departures ×2
• source ×2
• spring ×2
• springs ×2
• What goes out ×1
• as those who go out ×1
• came out ×1
• others ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1

• Numbers 30:12

  But if her husband does annul them on the day he hears of them, nothing that came out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of her soul shall stand; her husband has annulled them, and YHWH will forgive her.

• Numbers 33:2

  Moses wrote down their departures by their stages at the command of YHWH; and these are their stages by their departures.

• Deuteronomy 8:3

  He afflicted you and let you hunger and fed you the manna, which you did not know and your fathers did not know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does a human being live, but by everything that comes out of the mouth of YHWH does a human being live.

• Deuteronomy 23:23

  What goes out of your lips you shall keep and do, just as you have vowed to YHWH your Elohim a freewill offering that you have spoken with your mouth.

• 2 Samuel 3:25

  You know Abner son of Ner, that he came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”

• 1 Kings 10:28

  And the source of the horses that belonged to Solomon was from Egypt and from Kue; the merchants of the king would take them from Kue at a price.

• 2 Kings 2:21

  He went out to the spring of the water and threw salt into it and said, “Thus says YHWH, ‘I have healed this water; from there there will no longer be death or miscarriage.’”

• 2 Chronicles 1:16

  The source of the horses that Solomon had was from Egypt and from Kue; the king’s merchants would take them from Kue at a price.

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah stopped up the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his work.

• Job 28:1

  For there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

• Job 38:27

  to satisfy the desolation and ruin, and to make sprout the shoots of grass?

• Psalms 19:6

  From the end of the heavens is its going out, and its circuit to their ends; and nothing is hidden from its heat.

• Psalms 65:8

  And the inhabitants of the ends of the earth fear because of your signs; the goings out of the morning and of the evening you make shout for joy.

• Psalms 75:6

  For not from the going out nor from the west, nor from the wilderness of the mountains does it come,

• Psalms 89:34

  I will not profane my covenant, and what has gone out of my lips I will not change.

• Psalms 107:33

  He turns rivers into a wilderness, and springs of water into thirsty ground,

• Psalms 107:35

  He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

• Isaiah 41:18

  I will open on the bare heights rivers, and in the midst of the broad valleys springs; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry land into outlets of water.

• Isaiah 58:11

  And YHWH will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in scorched places, and your bones he will strengthen; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not deceive.

• Jeremiah 17:16

  But I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you, and the day beyond remedy I have not desired; you know it; what comes out of my lips has been before your face.

• Ezekiel 12:4

  And you will bring out your baggage as baggage for exile by day before their eyes; and you will go out in the evening before their eyes as those who go out into exile.

• Ezekiel 42:11

  And a way was in front of them, like the appearance of the chambers that were toward the north; as their length, so their width, and all their exits, both according to their arrangements and according to their entrances.

• Ezekiel 43:11

  And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, the form of the house and its arrangement and its exits and its entrances and all its forms and all its statutes, and all its forms and all its instructions make known to them, and write it before their eyes, so that they may keep all its form and all its statutes, and do them.

• Ezekiel 44:5

  And YHWH said to me, “Son of man, set your heart, and see with your eyes, and with your ears hear all that I am speaking to you concerning all the statutes of the house of YHWH and all its instructions; and set your heart on the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary.

• Daniel 9:25

  So know and understand: from the going out of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an Anointed One, a Leader, there will be seven weeks; and for sixty and two weeks it will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in the distress of the times.

• Hosea 6:3

  And let us know, let us press on to know YHWH; like the dawn, his going out is sure; and he will come to us like the rain, like the late rain that waters the earth.”

And 1 more times.