Mâtsôwd — H4685

Definition

masculine substantive

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

1. n m
2. siege-works, bulwark
3. hunting implement, net
4. n f
5. net
6. fastness, stronghold

Usually translated as

net, munition, bulwark, hold, snare

Origin

or (feminine) mᵉtsôwdâh; or mtsôdâh; from H6679; also (by interchange for H4679)

• Derived from Tsûwd (H6679)
• Derived from Mᵉtsad (H4679)

Greek equivalents

• amphíblēstron (G293)
• phylakḗ (G5438)
• chárax (G5482)

Occurrences

Mâtsôwd occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Proverbs (1), Ecclesiastes (2), Isaiah (1)

• Job 19:6 — Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net (וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ).
• Proverbs 12:12 — The wicked desireth the net (מְצ֣וֹד) 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 (מְצוֹדִ֧ים) and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
• 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 (מְצוֹדִ֥ים) 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 (וּמְצֹ֣דָתָ֔הּ), and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.