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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְצוֹדָה²: n.f. fastness, stronghold tree →

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 · 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 · 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

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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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