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Strong H46854 sensesמָצוֹד

net · stronghold · siegework

Transliteration
mâtsôd metsôdâh metsôdâh
Pronunciation
{maw-tsode'} {mets-o-daw'} mets-o-daw'

The 4 senses of Strong H4685

The lexicon tells 4 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4685 appears in 6 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. netH4685Bhunting implement, net2 verses · Proverbs, Ecclesiastes
  2. strongholdמְצוֹדָהH4685Dfastness, stronghold2 verses · Isaiah, Ezekiel
  3. siegeworkH4685Asiege-works1 verse · Ecclesiastes
  4. netמְצוֹדָהH4685CAnother spelling of ma.tsod (מָצוֹד "net" H4685B)1 verse · Ecclesiastes

General definition

From H6679; a net (for capturing animals or fishes); also (by interchange for H4679) a fastness or (besieging) tower: - {bulwark} {hold} {munition} {net} snare.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • net2
  • bulwark1
  • hold1
  • munition1
  • snare1

First verses

  1. Proverbs 12:12
    The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:26
    And 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.
  3. Ecclesiastes 9:12
    For 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.
  4. Ecclesiastes 9:14
    There 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:
  5. Isaiah 29:7
    And 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.
  6. Ezekiel 19:9
    And 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.