ma.tsu.dah denotes an enclosing means of capture, used of people being brought under restraint.

The occurrences depict an enclosing means of capture: people are caught after a net is spread in Ezekiel 12:13 and Ezekiel 17:20, brought into it in Psalm 66:11, and delivered from an enclosing power in Ezekiel 13:21.

1. Enclosing means of capture or restraint · dominant

   In Ezekiel 12:13 and Ezekiel 17:20, the construct form occurs in clauses where a net is spread over a man and he is caught; the APB renders the surrounding action with “my net” and being “caught.” In Psalm 66:11, the absolute form occurs where the people are brought into the net, while Ezekiel 13:21 places the absolute form in a deliverance statement in which people are no longer held as prey.

   Ezekiel 12:13Ezekiel 13:21Ezekiel 17:20Psalm 66:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the capture imagery as “my net” in Ezekiel 12:13 and Ezekiel 17:20 and as “the net” in Psalm 66:11. In Ezekiel 13:21, its wording centers on deliverance from hands and prey, so the lemma's individual English correspondence is not isolated by the translation.