H4686bNoun, feminine17 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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In the text
- 1 Samuel 22:4בַּמְּצוּדָה ס
So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
- 2 Samuel 5:7מְצֻדַת
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
- 1 Chronicles 11:5מְצֻדַת
The people of Jebus said to David, “You will never get in here.” Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
- Job 39:28וּמְצוּדָה
He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
- Psalm 18:2וּמְצוּדָתִי
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
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.