מָצוֹד
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hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine7 occurrences5 books7 verses
Definition
or (feminine) מְצוֹדָה; or מצֹדָה; from H6679; also (by interchange for H4679) a net (for capturing animals or fishes); a fastness or (beseiging) tower
Traditional renderings: bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
Traditional renderings: bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
Usage patterns
Occurrences
7 total
- Job 19:6וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ · and drawn His net…then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Proverbs 12:12מְצ֣וֹד · the plunderThe wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26מְצוֹדִ֧ים · [is] a snareAnd 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 9:12בִּמְצוֹדָ֣ה · netFor 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 9:14מְצוֹדִ֥ים · siege rampsThere was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.
- Isaiah 29:7וּמְצֹ֣דָתָ֔הּ · laying siegeAll the many nations going 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,
- Ezekiel 19:9בַּמְּצֹד֔וֹת · into captivityWith hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.