Words the Bible translates as fortress
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- mivtsarמִבְצָרa fortified place: a walled town, or the defensive stronghold that guards it, built to hold out against attack
- ma'ozמָעוֹזa place or source of safety and strength: a fortress to shelter behind, or the protection a person leans on for security
- armonאַרְמוֹןa fortified great house: the citadel or palace of a king or the powerful, at once a grand residence and a defensible stronghold
- matsudahמְצוּדָהa stronghold: a fortified or, more often, a rugged natural height that keeps its occupant safe from attack.
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- a hunter's net or snare: a trap that closes on prey, and so on a person who cannot escape.
- misgavמִשְׂגָּבa place set so high it cannot be reached, and so a place of perfect safety
- birahבִּירָהa fortified citadel or palace-complex: the walled royal and administrative stronghold at the center of a capital
- metsadמְצָדa stronghold: a high, hard-to-reach place that people hold or hide in because the ground itself protects them
- metsurahמְצוּרָהfortifications: the walls, ramparts, and earthworks that make a town defensible, and the matching works an army raises around a city it is shutting in
- biranitבִּירָנִיתfortressnot studied yet
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