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STRONGS NUMBER H4685

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Word Summary
matsowd: siegeworks
Original Word: מָצוֹד
Transliteration: matsowd
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-tsode')
Part of Speech: noun masculine; noun masculine; noun feminine; noun feminine
Short Definition: siegeworks
Meaning: a net, a, fastness, tower
Strong's Concordance
bulwark, hold, net, snare

Or (feminine) mtsowdah {mets-o-daw'}; or mtsodah {mets-o-daw'}; from tsuwd; a net (for capturing animals or fishes) -- also (by interchange for mtsad) a fastness or (beseiging) tower -- bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.

see HEBREW tsuwd

see HEBREW mtsad

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4685. matsowd

I. [מָצוֺד‎] noun masculine in plural, dubious, usually siege-works; — נְּדֹלִים מְצוֺדִים‎ Ecclesiastes 9:14, but read מְצוּרִים‎ WklAltor. Forsch. iv. 353, see מָצוֺר‎ 2, p. 849 a.

II. [מָצוֺד‎] noun [masculine] hunting implement, specifically net (compare Syriac , מְצַדְתָּא ᵑ7‎, net); — only figurative: construct רָעִים מְצוֺד‎ Proverbs 12:12 (but text dubious, see conjecture in Toy); suffix מְצוּדוֺ‎ Job 19:5 (of God as Job's hunter); plural לִנָּהּ וַחֲרָמִים מְצוֺדִים‎ Ecclesiastes 7:26 (of woman).

I. מְצוֺדָה‎ noun feminine net; — ׳מ‎ Ecclesiastes 9:12 for fish (in simile); — plural Ezekiel 19:9 see מְצָד‎ above

II. [מְצוֺדָה‎] noun feminine fastness, stronghold; — suffix מְצֹדָתָהּ‎ Isaiah 29:7 (of Ariel); — plural Ezekiel 19:9 see מְצָד‎.





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