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Lexicon :: Strong's H4013 - miḇṣār

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מִבְצָר
Transliteration
miḇṣār
Pronunciation
mib-tsawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

מִבְצָר mibtsâr, mib-tsawr'; also (in plural) feminine (Daniel 11:l5) מִבְצָרָה mibtsârâh; from H1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender:—(de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H4013 in the following manner: hold (13x), fenced (12x), fortress (6x), defenced (4x), strong (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H4013 in the following manner: hold (13x), fenced (12x), fortress (6x), defenced (4x), strong (2x).
  1. fortification, fortress, fortified city, stronghold

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִבְצָר mibtsâr, mib-tsawr'; also (in plural) feminine (Daniel 11:l5) מִבְצָרָה mibtsârâh; from H1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender:—(de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).
STRONGS H4013: Abbreviations
מִבְצָר noun masculineIsaiah 17:3 fortificationמִבְצָר Numbers 32:71 + 18 times; construct מִבְצַר Joshua 19:29 + 2 times; plural מִבְצָרִים Numbers 13:19; Daniel 11:24; מִבְצָרוֺת Daniel 11:15; מִבְצְרֵי Lamentations 2:2; Daniel 11:39; suffix מִבְצָרֶיךָ Hosea 10:14 + 2 times; מִבְצָרַיִךְ Nahum 3:12; מִבְצָרָ֑יִךְ Nahum 3:14; Jeremiah 48:18; מִבְצָרָיו Psalm 89:41; Lamentations 2:5; מִבְצָרֶיהָ Isaiah 34:13; מִבְצְרֵיהֶם 2 Kings 8:12; — fortification, especially in phrase ׅ (המ׳ עיר (ערי) מ׳ = fortified city Numbers 32:17, 36; Joshua 10:20; Joshua 19:29, 35; 1 Samuel 6:18; 2 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 10:2; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings 18:8; Jeremiah 4:5; Jeremiah 5:17; Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 34:7; Psalm 108:11 (עיר מ׳ = עיר מָצוֺר Psalm 60:11), 2 Chronicles 17:19; Daniel 11:15 (מ׳ in this connection singular except Jeremiah 5:17 & Daniel 11:15 (מבצרות)); Jeremiah 1:18 figurative of prophet, so without עיר Jeremiah 6:27; fortress, stronghold, literal without עיר etc. Numbers 13:19; 2 Kings 8:12; Jeremiah 48:18; Isaiah 17:3; Isaiah 25:12 (משׁגב חומתיך מ׳) Isaiah 34:13 (|| ארמנת), Lamentations 2:2, 5 (|| id.) Psalm 89:41; Hosea 10:14; Amos 5:9; Micah 5:10; Nahum 3:12, 14; Habakkuk 1:10; Daniel 11:24, 39; followed by proper name צֹד מ׳ 2 Samuel 24:7 (compare Joshua 19:29 צֹר עיר מ׳).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

13:19; 13:19; 32:17; 32:36

Joshua

10:20; 19:29; 19:29; 19:29; 19:35

1 Samuel

6:18

2 Samuel

24:7

2 Kings

3:19; 8:12; 8:12; 10:2; 17:9; 18:8

2 Chronicles

17:19

Psalms

60:11; 89:41; 89:41; 108:11

Isaiah

17:3; 17:3; 25:12; 34:13; 34:13

Jeremiah

1:18; 4:5; 5:17; 5:17; 6:27; 8:14; 34:7; 48:18; 48:18

Lamentations

2:2; 2:2; 2:5; 2:5

Daniel

11:15; 11:15; 11:15; 11:24; 11:24; 11:39; 11:39

Hosea

10:14; 10:14

Amos

5:9

Micah

5:10

Nahum

3:12; 3:12; 3:14; 3:14

Habakkuk

1:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4013 matches the Hebrew מִבְצָר (miḇṣār),
which occurs 37 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “And how is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they [fn]like open camps or with fortifications H4013?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, and our little ones live in the fortified H4013 cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified H4013 cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Now it happened when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a very great slaughter until they were completely destroyed, and the survivorsthose of them who survived[fn]had entered the fortified H4013 cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29 - Then the border turned to Ramah and to the fortified H4013 city of Tyre; then the border turned to Hosah, and [fn]it ended at the sea by the region of Achzib.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - Now the fortified H4013 cities were Ziddim, Zer and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified H4013 cities and of country villages. The large [fn]stone on which they set the ark of Yahweh is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortified H4013 city of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:19 - ‘Then you shall strike every fortified H4013 city and every choice city, and fell every good tree and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications H4013 you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “So now, when this letter comes to you, [fn]since your master’s sons are with you, [fn]as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified H4013 city and the weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - And the sons of Israel [fn]did things secretly which were not right against Yahweh their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified H4013 city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified H4013 city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:19 -

These are they who attended on the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortified H4013 cities through all Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:40 -

You have broken down all his walls;

You have beset his strongholds H4013 with ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:10 -

Who will bring me into the well-defended H4013 city?

Who [fn]will lead me to Edom?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 -

“And the [fn]fortified H4013 city H4013 will cease from Ephraim,

And [fn]sovereignty from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram;

They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:12 -

The unassailable fortifications H4013 of your walls He will bring down,

Lay low, and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 -

And thorns will come up in its fortified H4013 towers,

Weeds and thistles in its fortified H4013 cities H4013;

It will also be a haunt of jackals

And an abode of ostriches.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - “Now behold, I have given you today as a fortified H4013 city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests, and to the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 -

Declare in Judah and make it heard in Jerusalem and say,

“Blow the trumpet in the land;

Call out, make your voice full, and say,

‘Gather yourselves, and let us go

Into the fortified H4013 cities.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 -

“They will devour your harvest and your food;

They will devour your sons and your daughters;

They will devour your flocks and your herds;

They will devour your vines and your fig trees;

They will demolish with the sword your fortified H4013 cities in which you trust.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:27 -

“I have made you a tester of metals and [fn]an assayer among My people,

That you may know and test their way.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 -

Why are we sitting still?

Gather yourselves, and let us go into the fortified H4013 cities

And let us be silent there

Because Yahweh our God has silenced us

And given us [fn]poisoned water to drink,

For we have sinned against Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the military force of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified H4013 cities among the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:18 -

“Come down from your glory

And inhabit [fn]the parched ground,

O inhabitant of the daughter of Dibon;

For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,

He has ruined your strongholds H4013.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2 -

Beth

The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared

All the habitations of Jacob.

In His wrath He has pulled down

The strongholds H4013 of the daughter of Judah;

He has brought them down to the ground;

He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 -

He

The Lord has become like an enemy.

He has swallowed up Israel;

He has swallowed up all its palaces;

He has brought its strongholds H4013 to ruin

And multiplied in the daughter of Judah

Mourning and moaning.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - “Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siege ramp, and capture a well-fortified H4013 city; and the might of the South will not stand, not even [fn]their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24 - [fn]In a time of ease he will enter the richest parts of the province, and he will do what his fathers never did, nor his fathers’ fathers; he will distribute plunder, spoil, and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds H4013, but only for a time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39 - “And he will take action against the strongest of fortresses H4013 with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to [fn]those who recognize him and will cause them to rule over the many and will apportion land for a price.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14 -

Therefore a rumbling will arise among your people,

And all your fortifications H4013 will be destroyed,

As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,

When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:9 -

It is He who flashes forth with devastation upon the strong

So that devastation comes upon the fortification H4013.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 -

“And I will cut off the cities of your land

And pull down all your fortifications H4013.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 -

All your fortifications H4013 are fig trees with [fn]ripe fruit

When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 -

Draw for yourself water for the siege!

Strengthen your fortifications H4013!

Go into the clay and tread the mortar!

[fn]Take hold of the brick mold!

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:10 -

“And they mock at kings,

And rulers are a laughing matter to them.

They laugh at every fortress H4013

And heap up dirt and capture it.

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