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# מָצוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4693

**besieged places** — used 5 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

besieged places [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4693/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָצוֹר³: n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4693/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr.=מִצְרַיִם; only poet.: יְאֹרֵי מ׳ Is 19:6 2 K 19:24=Is 37:25; וְעָדֶיךָ יָבוֹא לְמִנִּי אַשּׁוּר וְעָרֵי מ׳ וּלְמִנִּי מ׳ וְעַד נָהָר Mi 7:12 (𝔊 misunderstands everywhere).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Egypt (4); Egypt (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.6/#tree)

וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָר֔וֹת דָּלֲל֥וּ וְחָרְב֖וּ יְאֹרֵ֣י מָצ֑וֹר קָנֶ֥ה וָס֖וּף קָמֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.stink \[the\].rivers they.will.be.low and they.will.become.dry the.canals of.Egypt reed\[s\] and rush\[es\] they.will.wither

*JPS 1917:* And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither.

[Isaiah 37:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.25/#tree)

אֲנִ֥י קַ֖רְתִּי וְשָׁתִ֣יתִי מָ֑יִם וְאַחְרִב֙ בְּכַף־פְּעָמַ֔י כֹּ֖ל יְאֹרֵ֥י מָצֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* I I.have.dug and I.have.drunk water and I.have.dried.up with the.sole my.feet my all the.canals of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4693.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4693/): 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).