H4013Noun, masculine37 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
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- Numbers 13:19בְּמִבְצָרִים
Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
- Joshua 10:20הַמִּבְצָר
So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.
- 2 Kings 3:19מִבְצָר
And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
- Isaiah 34:13בְּמִבְצָרֶיהָ
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
- Jeremiah 1:18מִבְצָר
Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
- Daniel 11:15מִבְצָרוֹת
Then the king of the North will come, build up a siege ramp, and capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their best troops will not be able to resist.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.