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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 fortification — מִבְצָר 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

H4013

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:17

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, while our little ones live in the fortified H4013 cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified H4013 cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - It came about when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished [fn]slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were destroyed, and the survivors who remained of them [fn]had entered the fortified H4013 cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - The fortified H4013 cities were Ziddim, Zer and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:18

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 the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortress H4013 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:19

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.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he [fn]answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds H4013 you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you will dash in pieces, and their women with child you will rip up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “Now, when this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, [fn]as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified H4013 city and the weapons,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - The sons of Israel [fn]did things secretly which were not right against the LORD their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified H4013 city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He [fn]defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified H4013 city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:19 - These are they who served the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortified H4013 cities through all Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:40 - You have broken down all his walls;
You have brought his strongholds H4013 to ruin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:10 - Who will bring me into the besieged H4013 city?
Who [fn]will lead me to Edom?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - “The [fn]fortified H4013 city H4013 will disappear from Ephraim,
And [fn]sovereignty from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,”
Declares the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:12

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - Thorns will come up in its fortified H4013 towers,
Nettles and thistles in its fortified H4013 cities; H4013
It will also be a haunt of jackals
And an abode of ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - “Now behold, I have made 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 - Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,
“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Cry aloud and say,
‘Assemble yourselves, and let us go
Into the fortified H4013 cities.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:17

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:27 - “I have made you an assayer and a tester H4013 among My people,
That you may know and assay their way.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - Why are we sitting still?
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified H4013 cities
And let us perish there,
Because the LORD our God has doomed us
And given us poisoned water to drink,
For we have sinned against the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:18 - “Come down from your glory
And sit [fn]on the parched ground,
O daughter dwelling in Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds. H4013

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2 - The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has thrown 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 - The Lord has become like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds H4013
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:15

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 forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even [fn]their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24 - “[fn]In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the [fn]realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers never did, nor his [fn]ancestors; he will distribute plunder, booty and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, H4013 but only for a time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39 - “He will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to [fn]those who acknowledge him and will cause them to rule over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14 - Therefore a tumult will arise among your people,
And all your fortresses H4013 will be destroyed,
As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,
When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:9 - It is He who flashes forth with destruction upon the strong,
So that destruction comes upon the fortress. H4013

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 - “I will also cut off the cities of your land
And tear down all your fortifications. H4013

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:12

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw for yourself water for the siege!
Strengthen your fortifications! H4013
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:10 - “They mock at kings
And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
They laugh at every fortress H4013
And heap up rubble to capture it.
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