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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָצוֹד²: n.m. siege-works tree →

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 · 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 · 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;

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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).

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