Bible word study

Matsowr (Strong’s H4692): Meaning in the Bible

Matsowr (מָצוֹר) is the Hebrew word numbered H4692 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness. In the King James Bible it is translated besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress.

• Original wordמָצוֹר
• Transliterationmâtsôwr
• Pronunciationmaw-tsore'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4692
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or מָצוּר; from H6696;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Matsowr appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Matsowr (H4692) stands behind 22 English renderings in 22 verses across 9 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (5), Deuteronomy (4), 2 Chronicles (3).

How the King James Bible renders Matsowr, by count

• siege12 of 22 (55 percent)
• besieged2 of 22 (9 percent)
• strong2 of 22 (9 percent)
• bulwarks1 of 22 (5 percent)
• defence1 of 22 (5 percent)
• fenced1 of 22 (5 percent)

Three places to read Matsowr

• Deuteronomy 20:20 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.
• Psalms 31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
• Ezekiel 4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Matsowr in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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