ma.tsod denotes the large siegeworks built around a small city by an attacking king.

The attested use refers to large works constructed as a great king surrounds and attacks a small city in Ecclesiastes 9:14.

1. Siegeworks built against a city · dominant

   In Ecclesiastes 9:14, the masculine plural noun occurs in the clause describing a great king who surrounded a small city and built large works upon it; the APB renders the clause "and built great siegeworks upon it."

   Ecclesiastes 9:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ecclesiastes 9:14, the APB presents the surrounding king's construction as "great siegeworks" upon the city.