מָצוֹר

Deuteronomy 20:19 בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃ in <the> state of siege

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

Deuteronomy 20:20 מָצ֗וֹר siege work[s]

But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

Deuteronomy 28:53 בְּמָצוֹר֙ in [the] siege

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

Here: 'In siege.' A city shut in by an army, with supplies cut off. It picks up the verb 'besiege' (hetsar) from v. 52.

Deuteronomy 28:55 בְּמָצוֹר֙ in [the] siege

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

Deuteronomy 28:57 בְּמָצוֹר֙ in [the] siege

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

2 Kings 24:10 בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃ in <the> state of siege

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

2 Kings 25:2 בַּמָּצ֑וֹר in <the> state of siege

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

2 Chronicles 8:5 מָצ֔וֹר fortification

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

Here: The word means a siege, or the defences that hold out against one. 'Cities of siege' therefore means towns built to withstand a siege: fortresses. Chronicles uses this phrase often.

2 Chronicles 11:5 לְמָצ֖וֹר to fortification

Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.

2 Chronicles 32:10 בְּמָצ֖וֹר in siege

“This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?

Psalm 31:21 מָצֽוֹר׃ siege

Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.

Psalm 60:9 מָצ֑וֹר fortification

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

Jeremiah 10:17 בַּמָּצֽוֹר׃ ס in the siege

Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.

Jeremiah 19:9 בְּמָצוֹר֙ in [the] siege

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

Here: 'In the siege'. A city shut in by an enemy army until food runs out. This is the situation that produces the horror.

Jeremiah 52:5 בַּמָּצ֑וֹר in <the> state of siege

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

Here: "Into the siege." The preposition *be-* ("in/into") goes with "came" to form a fixed phrase, "came into siege" (also 2 Kings 24:10; 25:2). It means being shut in and cut off. In Deuteronomy 28 the same word names the siege curse threatened on a covenant-breaking people.

Ezekiel 4:2 מָצ֗וֹר a siege

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

Ezekiel 4:3 בַמָּצוֹר֙ in <the> state of siege

Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:7 מְצ֤וֹר [the] siege of

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 4:8 מְצוּרֶֽךָ׃ siege your

Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

Ezekiel 5:2 הַמָּצ֑וֹר the siege

When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

Here: 'The siege.' This is the siege of the model city in 4:2–3, 7–8, and behind it the coming Babylonian siege of Jerusalem (588–586 BC). The word also calls up the covenant curse of Deut 28:53–57, 'in the siege and the distress.'

Micah 5:1 מָצ֖וֹר a siege

Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Here: A siege: an army closing in, with ramps and blockade. It comes first in its clause for emphasis: 'A siege! He has set it against us.'

Nahum 3:14 מָצוֹר֙ siege

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

Habakkuk 2:1 מָצ֑וֹר [the] fortification

I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.

Here: Here the fortification or rampart, the walled height from which a lookout scans the horizon. The word usually belongs to warfare (siege, besieged city, fortified place), which suits a book about the coming Babylonian army.

Zechariah 9:3 מָצ֖וֹר a fortification

Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Zechariah 12:2 בַמָּצ֖וֹר in the siege

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.

Here: 'In the siege', with the definite article: the particular siege just pictured, the nations encircling Jerusalem. The word carries the whole misery of siege warfare: blockade, siege works, famine, desperation.