Strong's Hebrew · H4685
H4685 mâtsôwd
מָצוֹד
maw-tsode'
siegework
Looking for Greek G4685 spáō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H4685. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
mâtsôwd appears 7 times in Scripture, in Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah and Ezekiel. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a net (for capturing animals or fishes); a fastness or (beseiging) tower
In the King James Version
bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
Derivation
or (feminine) מְצוֹדָה; or מצֹדָה; from H6679 (צוּד); also (by interchange for H4679 (מְצַד))
Appears 7 times in Scripture
“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.”
“then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.”
“The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.”
“With 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.”
“All 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,”
“There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.”
“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.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
