Strong’s H4685 · Hebrew
מָצוֹד
mâtsôwd · maw-tsode'
Origin or (feminine) מְצוֹדָה; or מצֹדָה; from צוּד (H6679); also (by interchange for מְצַד (H4679))
Meaning a net (for capturing animals or fishes); afastness or (beseiging) tower
In the King James Version bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Proverbs 12:12The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And 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.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
- Ecclesiastes 9:14There 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:
- Isaiah 29:7And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
- Ezekiel 19:9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.