Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4692
מָצוֹר
matsormaw-tsore'
siege
25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâtsôwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4692is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4692
something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
The King James renders it: besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.
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
matsor is rendered "siege". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Five of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 20:19When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
Deuteronomy 20:19בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in siege5
- in the state of siege5
- fortification3
- a siege2
- in the siege2
- siege2
- a fortification1
- siege of1
- siege work1
- siege your1
- the siege1
- to fortification1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָצוּד | matsud | net | Uses21 |
| מָצוֹד | matsod | siegework | Uses7 |
| מָצוֹק | matsoq | distress | Uses6 |
| מָצוּק | matsuq | pillar | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- בְּמָצוֹר֙4
- בַּמָּצ֑וֹר2
- בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃2
- מָצ֑וֹר2
- מָצ֗וֹר2
- מָצ֖וֹר2
- בְּמָצ֖וֹר1
- בַמָּצוֹר֙1
- בַמָּצ֖וֹר1
- בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃ ס1
- הַמָּצ֑וֹר1
- לְמָצ֖וֹר1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular9HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular7HRd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular6HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
five uses
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃bamatzorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the state of siege
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
- מָצ֗וֹרmatzornoun · masculine singulartagged: siege work
Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- בְּמָצוֹר֙bematzorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in siege
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
- בְּמָצוֹר֙bematzorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in siege
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- בְּמָצוֹר֙bematzorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in siege
2 Kings
two uses
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
- בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃bamatzorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the state of siege
And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
- בַּמָּצ֑וֹרbamatzorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the state of siege
2 Chronicles
three uses
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
- מָצ֔וֹרmatzornoun · masculine singulartagged: fortification
Rehoboam continued to live in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.
- לְמָצ֖וֹרlematzorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to fortification
“This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
- בְּמָצ֖וֹרbematzorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in siege
Psalms
two uses
Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.
- מָצֽוֹר׃matzornoun · masculine singulartagged: siege
Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
- מָצ֑וֹרmatzornoun · masculine singulartagged: fortification
Jeremiah
three uses
Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.
- בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃ סbamatzorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the siege
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- בְּמָצוֹר֙bematzorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in siege
And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
- בַּמָּצ֑וֹרbamatzorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the state of siege
Ezekiel
five uses
Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
- מָצ֗וֹרmatzornoun · masculine singulartagged: a siege
Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
- בַמָּצוֹר֙vamatzorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the state of siege
You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
- מְצ֤וֹרmetzornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: siege of
Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
- מְצוּרֶֽךָ׃metzurekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: siege your
When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
- הַמָּצ֑וֹרhamatzorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the siege
Micah
one use
Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.
- מָצ֖וֹרmatzornoun · masculine singulartagged: a siege
Nahum
one use
Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
- מָצוֹר֙matzornoun · masculine singulartagged: siege
Habakkuk
one use
I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
- מָצ֑וֹרmatzornoun · masculine singulartagged: fortification
Zechariah
two uses
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
- מָצ֖וֹרmatzornoun · masculine singulartagged: a fortification
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.
- בַמָּצ֖וֹרvamatzorpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the siege
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.