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# מְצוֹדָה

Biblical Hebrew

**fastness** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fastness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְצוֹדָה²: n.f. fastness, stronghold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fastness, stronghold;—sf. מְצֹדָתָהּ Is 29:7 (of Ariel);—pl. Ez 19:9 v. מְצָד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a net (1); stronghold (1); strongholds (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 29:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.7/#tree)

וְהָיָ֗ה כַּֽחֲלוֹם֙ חֲז֣וֹן לַ֔יְלָה הֲמוֹן֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם הַצֹּבְאִ֖ים עַל־אֲרִיאֵ֑ל וְכָל־צֹבֶ֙יהָ֙ וּמְצֹ֣דָתָ֔הּ וְהַמְּצִיקִ֖ים לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be like a.dream a.vision of.\[the\].night the.multitude of.all the nations \[which\].go to.war on Ariel and all \[those who\].go.to.war.against.it and stronghold its and \[those who\].bring.distress to it

*JPS 1917:* And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, even all that war against her, and the bulwarks about her, and they that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.

[Ezekiel 19:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.9/#tree)

וַֽיִּתְּנֻ֤הוּ בַסּוּגַר֙ בַּֽחַחִ֔ים וַיְבִאֻ֖הוּ אֶל־מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֑ל יְבִאֻ֙הוּ֙ בַּמְּצֹד֔וֹת לְמַ֗עַן לֹא־יִשָּׁמַ֥ע קוֹל֛וֹ ע֖וֹד אֶל־הָרֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and they put.it in (the) cage with (the) hooks and they brought.it to the.king of.Babylon they brought.it in (the) strongholds so.that not it.may.be.heard voice its again to the.mountains of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).