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title: מָצוֹר — besieged places · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָצוֹר (4693), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: besieged places. BDB 1906: n.pr.terr. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָצוֹר

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«מָצוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **besieged places** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 4693 · **BDB:** מָצוֹר³

### Glosses

of.Egypt (4); Egypt (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָצוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4693/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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