matsor · siege, distress

What it means

matsor (מָצוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “siege, distress”.

Siege: the ring set around a city and the works raised for it; also distress, 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. Surrounding a city with an army to take it; the siege.
2. A city with walls and defenses, that withstands attacks.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• siege ×19
• fortified ×2
• Egypt ×1
• as fortresses ×1
• bulwark ×1
• fortification ×1
• siegeworks ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×5
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Psalms×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×5
• Micah×2
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×2

• Deuteronomy 20:19

  When you besiege a city many days, fighting against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them, for from them you may eat, and you shall not cut them down. Is the tree of the field a human being, to come before you in the siege?

• Deuteronomy 20:20

  Only a tree that you know that it is not a tree for food, it you may destroy and cut down, and build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you, until it falls.

• Deuteronomy 28:53

  And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom YHWH your Elohim has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you.

• Deuteronomy 28:55

  so as not to give to any one of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:57

  and on her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and on her children whom she bears; for she will eat them for lack of everything in secret, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

• 2 Kings 24:10

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

• 2 Kings 25:2

  The city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

• 2 Chronicles 8:5

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

• 2 Chronicles 11:5

  Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities as fortresses in Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:10

  “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria: On what are you trusting, that you remain in the siege in Jerusalem?

• Psalms 31:21

  Blessed be YHWH, for he has made wonderful his loyal love to me in a city under siege.

• Psalms 60:9

  Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

• Jeremiah 10:17

  Gather up from the land your bundle, you who dwell under siege.

• Jeremiah 19:9

  And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies will distress them, and those who seek their life.’

• Jeremiah 52:5

  The city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

• Ezekiel 4:2

  And put a siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and heap up a ramp against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams against it all around.

• Ezekiel 4:3

  And you, take for yourself an iron griddle and set it as an iron wall between you and the city, and direct your face toward it, and it will be under siege, and you will besiege it; it is a sign for the house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 4:7

  And toward the siege of Jerusalem you will direct your face, with your arm bared, and you will prophesy against it.

• Ezekiel 4:8

  And look, I have put ropes on you, and you will not turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

• Ezekiel 5:2

  A third you will burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and you will take a third and strike it with the sword all around it; and a third you will scatter to the wind, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Micah 5:1

  Now gather yourself in bands, daughter of bands; a siege he has laid against us; with the rod they will strike on the cheek the judge of Israel.

• Micah 7:12

  That day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, and sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege for yourself; strengthen your fortresses; go into the mud and tread the clay; take hold of the brick mold.

• Habakkuk 2:1

  At my guard post I will stand, and station myself on the fortification, and I will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my reproof.

• Zechariah 9:3

  And Tyre built a bulwark for herself, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.

• Zechariah 12:2

  “Look, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the peoples around; and also on Judah it will be, in the siege against Jerusalem.