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# מָצֹוד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4685

**hunting implement** — 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

hunting implement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4685/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָצוֹד³: hunting implement net) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4685/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hunting implement, specif. net (cf. Syriac ܡܨܺܝܕܬܳܐ, 𝔗 מְצַדְתָּא, net);— only fig.: cstr. מְצוֹד רָעִים Pr 12:12 (but text dub., v. conj. in Toy); sf. מְצוּדוֹ Jb 19:6 (of God as Job’s hunter); pl. מְצוֹדִים וַחֲרָמִים לִבָּהּ Ec 7:26 (of woman).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] snares (1); net (1).

## In the verses

[Job 19:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.6/#tree)

דְּֽעוּ־אֵ֭פוֹ כִּי־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ עָלַ֥י הִקִּֽיף׃

*Word for word:* know then (dm).that God he has.subverted.me and net his over me he.has.closed

*JPS 1917:* Know now that God hath subverted my cause, and hath compassed me with His net.

[Ecclesiastes 7:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.26/#tree)

וּמוֹצֶ֨א אֲנִ֜י מַ֣ר מִמָּ֗וֶת אֶת־הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ אֲשֶׁר־הִ֨יא מְצוֹדִ֧ים וַחֲרָמִ֛ים לִבָּ֖הּ אֲסוּרִ֣ים יָדֶ֑יהָ ט֞וֹב לִפְנֵ֤י הָאֱלֹהִים֙ יִמָּלֵ֣ט מִמֶּ֔נָּה וְחוֹטֵ֖א יִלָּ֥כֶד בָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] finding I bitter more than.death (et) the woman who she \[is\].snares and.\[is\] nets heart her \[are\].fetters hands her a.\[person\].good before (the) God he.escapes from her and a.sinner he.is.captured by her

*JPS 1917:* 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4685/): 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).