Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #281380

OSHB Ecc 9:14 מְצוֹדִים (məʦōdīm) Strongs=4685 a Lemma=‘מָצוֹד’
contextual word gloss=‘siege_works’ word gloss=‘siegeworks’
Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute
Year=-977

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Only use of identical word form ‘מְצוֹדִים’ (Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מְצוֹדִים’ (Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘siege_works’.

ECC 9:14 contextual word gloss=‘siege_works’ word gloss=‘siegeworks’ OSHB ECC 9:14 word 14

OET-LV: 14 A _city small and_men in_it were_few and_he _came to_her/it a _king great and_he _surrounded DOM_her/it and_he _built on/upon_it(f) siege _works great. (ECC_9:14)

OET-RV: 14 There was a small walled city with not so many inhabitants and a powerful king decided to attack it so he surrounded it and built large siege ramps against the walls. (ECC 9:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מָצוֹד’’ have 2 different glosses: ‘[is]_snares’, ‘siege_works’.