4685 - matsowd

Strong's Concordance

Original word: מְצוֹד
Transliteration: matsowd
Definition (short): bulwark
Definition (full): a net, a, fastness, tower

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or (feminine) mtsowdah {mets-o-daw'}; or mtsodah {mets-o-daw'}; from tsuwd; a net (for capturing animals or fishes) -- also (by interchange for mtsad) a fastness or (beseiging) tower -- bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.

see HEBREW tsuwd

see HEBREW mtsad

KJV: Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
NASB: Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
KJV: The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
NASB: The wicked man desires the booty of evil men, But the root of the righteous yields fruit.
KJV: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
NASB: And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
KJV: For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
NASB: Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
KJV: There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
NASB: There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it.