מָצוֹד
ma.tsod
“siegework”
Definition
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))
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מָצוֹד appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
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.
There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.
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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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