When thou shalt besiege
tsuwr (tsoor)
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
a city
`iyr (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
a long
rab (rab)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
time
yowm (yome)
a day (as the warm hours),
in making war
lacham (law-kham')
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction) -- devour, eat, ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
against it to take
taphas (taw-fas')
to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably
it thou shalt not destroy
shachath (shaw-khath')
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin -- batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, utterly, waste(-r).
the trees
`ets (ates)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks) -- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
thereof by forcing
nadach (naw-dakh')
to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)
an axe
garzen (gar-zen')
an axe -- ax.
against them for thou mayest eat
'akal (aw-kal')
to eat -- at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, freely, in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, quite.
of them and thou shalt not cut them down
karath (kaw-rath')
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant
for the tree
`ets (ates)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks) -- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
of the field
sadeh (saw-deh')
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat) -- country, field, ground, land, soil, wild.
is man's
'adam (aw-dawm')
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.) -- another, + hypocrite, + common sort, low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
lifeto employ
bow' (bo)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
them in the siege
paniym (paw-neem')
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
matsowr (maw-tsore')
something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
