Siege
מָצוֹרStrong’s H4692matsor (ma-tsor)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matsor is the Hebrew word usually translated “state of siege”, “siege” and “fortification”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.”
Meaning
- Siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege workssiege · enclosure, siege-works, rampart
How it's translated
- in state of siege 5
- in siege 5
- fortification 3
- siege 2
- in the siege 2
- a siege 2
- siege work 1
- to fortification 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 5
- Ezekiel 5
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Kings 2
- Psalms 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:2In contextBehold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
- Deuteronomy 20:19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
- Deuteronomy 20:20Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
- Deuteronomy 28:53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
- Deuteronomy 28:55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:57And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Hebrew dictionary
מָצוֹר matsor · siege
1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works 1a) siege 1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “siege” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIEGE, noun
[Latin sigillum.]
- The setting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; or the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire.
- Any continued endeavor to gain possession.
- Seat; throne.
- Rank; place; class.
All definitions and other forms of “siege”
- Stool. [Not in use.]
SIEGE, verb transitive
To besiege. [Not in use.]
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.