Lexicon matsowd: bulwark Original Word: מְצוֹדPart of Speech: noun masculine; noun masculine; noun feminine; noun feminine Transliteration: matsowd Phonetic Spelling: (maw-tsode') Short Definition: bulwark Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [ מָצוֺד] noun masculine in plural, dubious, usually siege-works; — מְצוֺדִים נְּדֹלִים Ecclesiastes 9:14, but read מְצוּרִים Wkl Altor. Forsch. iv. 353, see מָצוֺר 2, p. 849 a. II. [מָצוֺד] noun [masculine] hunting implement, specifically net (compare Syriac  , ᵑ7 מְצַדְתָּא, net); — only figurative: construct מְצוֺד רָעִים Proverbs 12:12 (but text dubious, see conjecture in Toy); suffix מְצוּדוֺ Job 19:5 (of God as Job's hunter); plural מְצוֺדִים וַחֲרָמִים לִנָּהּ Ecclesiastes 7:26 (of woman). I. מְצוֺדָה noun feminine net; — ׳מ Ecclesiastes 9:12 for fish (in simile); — plural Ezekiel 19:9 see מְצָד above II. [מְצוֺדָה] noun feminine fastness, stronghold; — suffix מְצֹדָתָהּ Isaiah 29:7 (of Ariel); — plural Ezekiel 19:9 see מְצָד.
Strong's bulwark, hold, net, snare Or (feminine) mtsowdah {mets-o-daw'}; or mtsodah {mets-o-daw'}; from tsuwd; a net (for capturing animals or fishes) -- also (by interchange for mtsad) a fastness or (beseiging) tower -- bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare. see HEBREW tsuwd see HEBREW mtsad |
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