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title: מָצוֹד — siege-works · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָצוֹד (lemma:מָצוֹד), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: siege-works. BDB 1906: n.m. siege-works. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָצוֹד

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«מָצוֹד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **siege-works** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:מָצוֹד · **BDB:** מָצוֹד²

### Glosses

a.net (1); siege.works (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

siege-works [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. siege-works [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3/#m2)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָצוֹד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e6_5d5_5b9_5d3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 12:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.12/)

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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.

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[Ecclesiastes 9:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.14/)

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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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