Siegework
מָצוֹדStrong’s H4685matsod (ma-tsod)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matsod is the Hebrew word usually translated “net his”, “net of” and “snares”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.”
Meaning
- Siege-works, bulwark
- Hunting implement, net
- Net
- Fastness, stronghold
How it's translated
- and net his 1
- a net of 1
- snares 1
- in a net 1
- siege works 1
- and stronghold its 1
- in strongholds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 3
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 12:12The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And 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 9:12For 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 9:14There 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 29:7And 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 19:9And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
מָצוֹד matsod · siegework
siege-works, bulwark
מָצוֹד matsod · net
hunting implement, net Also means: me.tso.dah (מְצוֹדָה "net" H4685C)
מְצוֹדָה metsodah · net
net Another spelling of ma.tsod (מָצוֹד "net" H4685B)
מְצוֹדָה metsodah · stronghold
fastness, stronghold
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “snare” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SNARE, noun
- An instrument for catching animals, particularly fowls, by the leg.
- Any thing by which one is entangled and brought into trouble. 1 Corinthians 7:35Proverbs 18:7“A fool's lip are the snare of his soul” Proverbs 18:7
All definitions and other forms of “snare”
SNARE, verb transitive
To catch with a snare; to ensnare; to entangle; to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity or danger. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.