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(Heb. Matsor', îָöåֹø ), a name occurring only in the original, and which the traslators of the A. V. (“besieged places,” 2Ki_19:24; Isa_37:25; “fortified cities,” Mic_7:12; “defense,” Isa_19:6) have confounded with a word of the same form signifying a fortress (as in Psa_31:22; Hab_2:1, etc.). Gesenius, however (Thesaur. Heb. p. 815), regards it as a title of Egypt, and apparently Lower Egypt, as, in three out of the four passages where it occurs, it is in the phrase éְàֹøֵé îָöåֹø , the streams or canals of Egypt, i.e. the branches of the Nile (Isa_19:6; Isa_37:25; 2Ki_19:24); and that it comes from the Egpytian word meduro, a kingdom; perhaps the sing. of the dual form Mizriailum, îִöְøִéַí q. d. double Egypt (comp. Josephus, Ant. 1:6, 2). Others (see Bochart, Phaleag, 4:24), as probably the Hebrews themselves, considered Egypt to be so called as being strongly fortified (see Died. Sic. 1:31). SEE EGYPT; SEE FORTRESS.