Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4685
מָצוֹד
matsodmaw-tsode'
siegework; net; net; stronghold
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâtsôwd
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4685is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4685
a net
The King James renders it: bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
matsod is rendered "siegework; net; net; stronghold". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "siegework".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Job 19:6וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
The word carries four meanings: siegework, and net, and net, and stronghold.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| siegeworkStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJob 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. |
| netStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| netStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| strongholdStrong's entry D | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a net of1
- and net his1
- and stronghold its1
- in a net1
- in the strongholds1
- siege works1
- snares1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּמְּצֹד֔וֹת1
- בִּמְצוֹדָ֣ה1
- וּמְצֹ֣דָתָ֔הּ1
- וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ1
- מְצ֣וֹד1
- מְצוֹדִ֧ים1
- מְצוֹדִ֥ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3fs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa
Job
one use
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹumetzudoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and net his
Proverbs
one use
The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
- מְצ֣וֹדmetzodnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a net of
Ecclesiastes
three uses
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.
- מְצוֹדִ֧יםmetzodimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: snares
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.
- בִּמְצוֹדָ֣הbimtzodahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in a net
There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.
- מְצוֹדִ֥יםmetzodimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: siege works
Isaiah
one use
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,
- וּמְצֹ֣דָתָ֔הּumetzodatahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and stronghold its
Ezekiel
one use
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.
- בַּמְּצֹד֔וֹתbametzodotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the strongholds
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.