# H4692 מָצוֹר

מָצוֹר (mâtsôwr), Strong’s H4692: something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness KJV: besieged, bulwark…

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*mâtsôwr* — 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.

Derived from [צוּר tsûwr](https://besorah.bible/word/H6696) (to cramp, i.e. confine)

Occurs 26 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָצוֹר n.[m.] siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 20:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=19) — When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by…
- [Deuteronomy 20:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=20) — Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks…
- [Deuteronomy 28:53](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=53) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 28:55](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=55) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 28:57](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=57) — toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them…
- [2 Kings 24:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/24?v=10) — At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
- [2 Kings 25:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=2) — So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
- [Jeremiah 10:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/10?v=17) — Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.
- [Jeremiah 19:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/19?v=9) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 52:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/52?v=5) — So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.