מָצוֹדmâtsôwd/maw-tsode'/
HebrewH46856 occurrences (KJV)
a net (for capturing animals or fishes); afastness or (beseiging) tower
KJV renders it: bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
Where it appears
- Prov 12:12The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
- Eccl 7:26I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
- Eccl 9:12For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
- Eccl 9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
- Isa 29:7The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
- Ezek 19:9They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.