H4692 - מָצוֹר (mâtsôwr)

H4692 מָצוֹר (mâtsôwr) maw-tsore'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

siege

Strong's Definition

something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness

Derivation: or מָצוּר; from H6696 (צוּר);

KJV Usage: besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.

TWOT Reference: 1898a

Outline of Biblical Usage

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

1a) siege

1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3794 G4042 G4730 G4928 G5482

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works 1a) siege 1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מָצוּר / מָצוֹר mâtsôr / mâtsûr BDB Definition: 1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works 1a) siege 1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6696 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1898a Total KJV Occurrences: 27

Bible Occurrences (25)

20:19 20:20 28:53 28:55 28:57

24:10 25:2

8:5 11:5 32:10

31:21 60:9

10:17 19:9 52:5

4:2 4:3 4:7 4:8 5:2

5:1

3:14

2:1

9:3 12:2

Deuteronomy 20:19

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit -. You must not cut them down.... Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

Deuteronomy 20:20

But you may destroy the trees that you know... do not... produce fruit... -. [Use them] to build siege works against the city that... is waging war against you, until it falls.

Deuteronomy 28:53

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

Deuteronomy 28:55

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing...... left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

2 Kings 24:10

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

2 Kings 25:2

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh... year.

2 Chronicles 8:5

He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,