matsod · net, stronghold

What it means

matsod (מָצוֹד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “net, stronghold”.

A hunting net; also what is caught in it, or a stronghold.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is laid to catch animals.
2. Strong place; works for besieging.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• net ×2
• bulwarks ×1
• fortress ×1
• snares ×1
• traps ×1

Where it appears

• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Proverbs 12:12

  The wicked desires the net of evil men, but the root of the righteous gives fruit.

• Ecclesiastes 7:26

  And I find more bitter than death the woman who is traps, and her heart nets, her hands bonds; the one who is good before Elohim will escape from her, but the sinner will be caught by her.

• Ecclesiastes 9:12

  For also the human being does not know his time; like fish that are caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare, so are human beings ensnared at an evil time when it falls on them suddenly.

• Ecclesiastes 9:14

  There was a small city and few men in it, and there came against it a great king and surrounded it and built against it great bulwarks.

• Isaiah 29:7

  And like a dream, a vision of the night, will be the multitude of all the nations that wage war against Ariel, and all who wage war against her and her fortress, and those who distress her.

• Ezekiel 19:9

  And they put him in the cage with hooks and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him in snares, so that his voice would no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.