Words the Bible translates as rampart
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- matsorמָצוֹרan enclosing barrier around a city: the siege that shuts it in, or the fortification that walls it off for defense.
- 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
- ḥelחֵלa rampart: the low outer defense ringing a fortified city, set in front of its main wall
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- a company of people: the body of Israelite exiles promised a return in Obadiah
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