{"def":{"short":"properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (i.e., not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)","long":["unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven."]},"deriv":"from H4711 in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness","pronun":{"ipa":"mɑt͡sˤˈsˤɔː","ipa_mod":"mɑˈt͡sɑː","sbl":"maṣṣâ","dic":"mahts-SAW","dic_mod":"ma-TSA"}}