מָצוֹר
māṣôr
siege-enclosure
Strong's H4692NounHebrewTWOT 1898a

מָצוֹר (māṣôr) is a Hebrew noun meaning siege-enclosure. It appears 26 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4692).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1898a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1898a)siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment; hemming in, mound, distress, fastness; besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, strong, tower
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מָצוֹר noun, masculine: siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment

Strong's H4692 מָצוֹר: something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
KJV:besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1898: צוּר ṣûr — confine, bind, besiege; cramp; adversary, assault, beset, cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags, afflict, affliction, beseige, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait, vex

See it in Scripture

Deuteronomy 20:192 Kings 24:102 Chronicles 8:5

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