{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4692",
  "lemma": "מָצוֹר",
  "transliteration": "mâtsôwr",
  "definition": "something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness",
  "kjv": "besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.",
  "occurrences": 26,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H6696",
      "lemma": "צוּר",
      "transliteration": "tsûwr",
      "meaning": "to cramp, i.e. confine",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6696"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מָצוֹר n.[m.] siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 20:19",
      "text": "When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 20:20",
      "text": "Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 28:53",
      "text": "You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=53"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 28:55",
      "text": "so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=55"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 28:57",
      "text": "toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=57"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 24:10",
      "text": "At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/24?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 25:2",
      "text": "So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 10:17",
      "text": "Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/10?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 19:9",
      "text": "I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/19?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 52:5",
      "text": "So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/52?v=5"
    }
  ],
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