STRONGS NUMBER H4690


Word Summary
matsuq: molten support, pillar
Original Word: מָצוּק
Transliteration: matsuq
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-tsook')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: molten support, pillar
Meaning: something narrow, a column, hilltop
Strong's Concordance
pillar, situate

Or matsuq {maw-tsook'}; from tsuwq; something narrow, i.e. A column or hilltop -- pillar, situate.

see HEBREW tsuwq

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4690. matsuq

[מָצוּק‎] noun masculine molten support, pillar; — plural construct אֶרֶץ מְצֻקֵי1 Samuel 2:8 the supports of the earth are ׳י‎s; — מָצוּק14:5 ('as a pillar,' 'steep,' etc.) is difficult (compare HPS); strike out with ᵐ5‎ Th Dr Bu.

I. צור‎ (√of following; compare possibly Arabic () cause to incline, learn; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (rare), so Aramaic (compare Köii.1, 90), צַוְּרָא‎).