Strong’s H6877 · Hebrew
צְרִיחַ
tsᵉrîyach · tser-ee'-akh
Origin from צָרַח (H6873) in the sense of clearness of vision;
Meaning a citadel
In the King James Version high place, hold.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 9:46And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
- Judges 9:49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- 1 Samuel 13:6When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
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.