Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
siege
Usage: 1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works 1a) siege 1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart
Matsor means “siege” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4692 — speudo in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4692 מָצוֹר מָצוּר (matsowr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. matsowr (maw-tsore') (or matsuwr {maw-tsoor'}) n-m. 1. something hemming in 2. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers) It has 26 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include siege. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
matsowr (maw-tsore') (or matsuwr {maw-tsoor'}) n-m. 1. something hemming in 2. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers) 3. (abstractly) a siege 4. (figuratively) distress 5. (subjectively) a fastness [from H6696] KJV: besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower. Root(s): H6696
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siege
Usage: 1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works 1a) siege 1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render matsowr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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26 indexed usages in Old Testament.
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4692.
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4692, grouped by book.
Matsor (Strong's H4692) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "siege". matsowr (maw-tsore') (or matsuwr {maw-tsoor'}) n-m. 1. something hemming in 2. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers)
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H4692 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4692 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as siege. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.