HebrewH4685Noun (Masculine)

מָצוֹד

ma.tsod

7Occurrences
H4685Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a net (for capturing animals or fishes); afastness or (beseiging) tower

or (feminine) מְצוֹדָה; or מצֹדָה; from H6679 (צוּד); also (by interchange for H4679 (מְצַד))

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
siege-works, bulwark

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

מָצוֹד appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ecclesiastes
3
Ezk
1
Isaiah
1
Job
1
Proverbs
1

Key Passages

Ecclesiastes 7:26BSB

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Ecclesiastes 9:12BSB

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

Ecclesiastes 9:14BSB

There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

Ezk 19:9BSB

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Isaiah 29:7BSB

All the many nationsgoing out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her,laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream,like a vision in the night,

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