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Strong's #4685: matsowd (pronounced maw-tsode')

or (feminine) mtsowdah {mets-o-daw'}; or mtsodah {mets-o-daw'}; from 6679; a net (for capturing animals or fishes):--also (by interchange for 4679) a fastness or (beseiging) tower:--bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mâtsôd / metsôdâh

1) siege-works, bulwark (noun masculine)

2) hunting implement, net (noun masculine)

3) net (noun feminine)

4) fastness, stronghold (noun feminine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H6679

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1885d, 1885e



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Job 19:6: "God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net."
Proverbs 12:12: "The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth"
Ecclesiastes 7:26: "the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands"
Ecclesiastes 9:14: "it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against"
Isaiah 29:7: "Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night"









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