Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #4690 - מָצוּק matsuq (molten support)


Original Word:מָצוּק
Transliteration: matsuq
Definition:molten support, pillar
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(maw-tsook')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

pillar, situate

Or matsuq {maw-tsook'}; from tsuwq; something narrow, i.e. A column or hilltop -- pillar, situate.

see HEBREW tsuwq


Englishman's Concordance

1) molten support, pillar, column
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6693
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1896a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מָצוּק] noun masculinemolten support, pillar; — plural construct מְצֻקֵי אֶרֶץ1 Samuel 2:8the supports of the earth are ׳יs; — מָצוּק1 Samuel 14:5 ('as a pillar,' 'steep,' etc.) is difficult (compare HPS); strike out with ᵐ5 Th Dr Bu.

I. צור (√of following; compare possibly Arabic () cause to incline, learn; Late Hebrew=Biblical Hebrew (rare), so Aramaic (compare Köii.1, 90), צַוְּרָא).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4690. מָצוּק (matsuq or matsuq) — 2 Occurrences

1 Samuel 2:8
HEB:כִּ֤י לַֽיהוָה֙ מְצֻ֣קֵי אֶ֔רֶץ וַיָּ֥שֶׁת
NAS: of honor; For the pillars of the earth
KJV: of glory: for the pillars of the earth
INT: for are the LORD'S the pillars of the earth set

1 Samuel 14:5
HEB:הַשֵּׁ֧ן הָאֶחָ֛ד מָצ֥וּק מִצָּפ֖וֹן מ֣וּל
NAS: crag rose on the north
KJV: of the one [was] situate northward
INT: crag the one rose the north opposite

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