Strong's Definition
from 5255 in the sense of staving off; a cordon, (adverbially) or (as a) military barrier
KJV Usage: broken down
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מַסָּח (mas.sach) — defense. 1) meaning uncertain-perhaps n 1a) guard adv 1b) alternately, by turns
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
adv · נסח
unknown word of unknown meaning
1 2KI 11:6 NJPS "on every side" | NIV "take turns" | LXX RSV NRSV ESV omit | REB "with the outrunners"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מַסָּח dub. word, only in 2 K 11:6; = for plucking away, i.e. repulse, defence, but very uncertain ref