Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H4693
מָצוֹר
matsormaw-tsore'
Egypt
5 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 H4693is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4693
Egypt (as the border of Palestine)
The King James renders it: besieged places, defense, fortified.
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 "Egypt". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 19:24I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
2 Kings 19:24מָצֽוֹר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Egypt5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָצוֹר | matsor | siege | Uses25 |
| 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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- מָצ֑וֹר2
- מָצֽוֹר׃2
- מָצוֹר֙1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)5HNpl
2 Kings
one use
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- מָצֽוֹר׃matzorproper noun (a name)tagged: Egypt
Isaiah
two uses
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
- מָצ֑וֹרmatzorproper noun (a name)tagged: Egypt
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- מָצֽוֹר׃matzorproper noun (a name)tagged: Egypt
Micah
two uses
On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
- מָצ֑וֹרmatzorproper noun (a name)tagged: Egypt
- מָצוֹר֙matzorproper noun (a name)tagged: Egypt
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.