[muh-sah-duh; Heb. muh-tsah-dah] 
| a mountaintop fortress in E Israel on the SW shore of the Dead Sea: site of Zealots' last stand against the Romans during revolt of a.d. 66–73. |
| Ma·sa·da (mə-sä'də, -tsä-dä') An ancient mountaintop fortress in southeast Israel on the southwest shore of the Dead Sea. In A.D. 73, after a two-year siege, members of the Zealot Jewish movement committed mass suicide rather than surrender to the Romans. |
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