H4685: מָצוֹד
mâtsôwd · pronounced maw-tsode' · “siegework”
Definition
a net (for capturing animals or fishes); afastness or (beseiging) tower
KJV translates it as: bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
Word origin: or (feminine) מְצוֹדָה; or מצֹדָה; from H6679 (צוּד); also (by interchange for H4679 (מְצַד))
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4685 is translated
- his ×1
- a net of ×1
- is snares ×1
- a net ×1
- siege works ×1
- its ×1
- strongholds ×1
Bible verses with H4685 (mâtsôwd)
Mâtsôwd appears in 7 verses.
- Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
- Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
- Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
- Ezekiel 19:9
And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.