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Strong’s H4694 · Hebrew

מְצוּרָה

mᵉtsûwrâh · mets-oo-raw'

Origin or מְצֻרָה; feminine of מָצוֹר (H4692);

Meaning a hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of siege), or (subjectively) a rampart (of protection), (abstractly) fortification

In the King James Version fenced (city, fort, munition, strong hold.

In 8 verses of the King James Version

  1. 2 Chronicles 11:10And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
  2. 2 Chronicles 11:11And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
  3. 2 Chronicles 11:23And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
  4. 2 Chronicles 12:4And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
  5. 2 Chronicles 14:6And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
  6. 2 Chronicles 21:3And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
  7. Isaiah 29:3And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
  8. Nahum 2:1He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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