also (by interchange for 4679) a fastness or (beseiging) tower: — bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
Used for hunting and fishing
Concise Bible Dictionary:
Fishermen Near Sidon – Dec. 10-20, 1937
Various words are translated “net,” some signifying large nets, and others the drag net. Symbolically nets represent devices secretly laid or they would be shunned, even as a bird avoids a net spread in its sight (Prov. 1:1717Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. (Proverbs 1:17)). The kingdom of heaven is compared to a net cast into the sea, which gathers good and bad; “the wicked” will be sorted from “the just” at the end of the age (Matt. 13:47-4947Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: 48Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. 49So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, (Matthew 13:47‑49)). Satan and the wicked also prepare their nets and snares (Psa. 141:1010Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. (Psalm 141:10); 1 Tim. 3:77Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. (1 Timothy 3:7)).
Trammel nets for snaring migratory quail near Gaza.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
or (feminine) mtsowdah {mets-o-daw'}; or mtsodah {mets-o-daw'}; from 6679; a net (for capturing animals or fishes)
KJV Usage:
also (by interchange for 4679) a fastness or (beseiging) tower:--bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare