Strong's #4692: matsowr (pronounced maw-tsore')

or matsuwr {maw-tsoor'}; from 6696; something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness:--besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mâtsôr / mâtsûr

1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works

1a) siege

1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6696

Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

 

Deuteronomy 20:19: "(for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:"
Deuteronomy 20:20: "thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that"
Deuteronomy 28:53: "the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress"
Deuteronomy 28:55: "whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness,"
Deuteronomy 28:57: "she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy"
2 Kings 24:10: "came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged."
2 Kings 25:2: "And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king"
2 Chronicles 8:5: "the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;"
2 Chronicles 11:5: "in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah."
2 Chronicles 32:10: "Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?"
Psalms 31:21: "be the LORD: for he hath showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city."
Psalms 60:9: "Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?"
Isaiah 19:6: "And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags"
Jeremiah 19:9: "every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek"
Jeremiah 52:5: "So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king"
Ezekiel 4:2: "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount"
Ezekiel 4:3: "thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign"
Ezekiel 4:7: "Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy"
Ezekiel 4:8: "another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege."
Ezekiel 5:2: "in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part,"
Micah 5:1: "O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge"
Nahum 3:14: "Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strongholds: go into clay, and tread"
Habakkuk 2:1: "my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say"
Zechariah 9:3: "And Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire"
Zechariah 12:2: "the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against"