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# מָצוֹד

Biblical Hebrew

**siege-works** — used 2 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

siege-works [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָצוֹד²: n.m. siege-works [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. in pl., dub., usually siege-works;—מְצוֹדִים גְּדֹלִים Ec 9:14, but read מְצוּרִים WklAltor. Forsch. i. 353, v. מָצוֹר 2, p. 849 a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.12/#tree)

חָמַ֣ד רָ֭שָׁע מְצ֣וֹד רָעִ֑ים וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ צַדִּיקִ֣ים יִתֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* he.covets a.wicked.\[person\] a.net of.evil.\[things\] and.\[the\] root of.righteous.\[people\] it.yields.produce

*JPS 1917:* The wicked desireth the prey of evil men; but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

[Ecclesiastes 9:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.14/#tree)

עִ֣יר קְטַנָּ֔ה וַאֲנָשִׁ֥ים בָּ֖הּ מְעָ֑ט וּבָֽא־אֵלֶ֜יהָ מֶ֤לֶךְ גָּדוֹל֙ וְסָבַ֣ב אֹתָ֔הּ וּבָנָ֥ה עָלֶ֖יהָ מְצוֹדִ֥ים גְּדֹלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* a.city small and men in it \[were\].few and he.came against it a.king great and he.surrounded it and he.built on it siege.works great

*JPS 1917:* 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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3/): 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).