Strong's #4686: matsuwd (pronounced maw-tsood')

or (feminine) mtsuwdah {mets-oo-daw'}; or mtsudah {mets-oo-daw'}; for 4685; a net, or (abstractly) capture; also a fastness; --castle, defense, fort(-ress), (strong) hold, be hunted, net, snare, strong place.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mâtsûd / metsûdâh

1) net, prey, net prey

1a) net

1b) prey

2) fastness, stronghold

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: for H4685

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1885g, 1885i

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

1 Samuel 22:4: "the while that David was in the hold."
1 Samuel 22:5: "David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah."
1 Samuel 24:22: "but David and his men got them up unto the hold."
2 Samuel 5:7: "Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion: the same is the city of David."
2 Samuel 5:9: "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built"
2 Samuel 5:17: "heard of it, and went down to the hold."
2 Samuel 22:2: "And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;"
2 Samuel 23:14: "And David was then in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem."
1 Chronicles 11:5: "Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David."
1 Chronicles 11:16: "And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem."
Job 39:28: "upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place."
Psalms 18:2: "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler,"
Psalms 31:2: "thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save"
Psalms 31:3: "For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide"
Psalms 66:11: "Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins."
Psalms 71:3: "me; for thou art my rock and my fortress."
Psalms 91:2: "I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust."
Psalms 144:2: "My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people"
Ecclesiastes 9:12: "as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare;"
Ezekiel 12:13: "also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;"
Ezekiel 13:21: "and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I"
Ezekiel 17:20: "my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with"