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מָצוּק

ma.tsuq

pillar

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Strong’s H4690Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the pillars of1

a pillar1

In the text

1 Samuel 2:8מְצֻקֵי
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מָצוּק] n.m. molten support, pillar

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.