Strong's #4013: mibtsar (pronounced mib-tsawr')
also (in plural) feminine (Dan. 11:l5) mibtsarah {mib-tsaw-raw'}; from 1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender:--(de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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mibtsâr / mibtsârâh
1) fortification, fortress, fortified city, stronghold
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H1219
Usage:
This word is used 37 times:
Numbers 13:19: "in, whether in tents, or in strongholds;"
Numbers 32:17: "until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities"
Numbers 32:36: "And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep."
Joshua 10:20: "of them entered into fenced"
Joshua 19:29: "turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth"
Joshua 19:35: " And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,"
1 Samuel 6:18: "of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, both of fenced cities, and of country"
2 Samuel 24:7: "And came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out"
2 Kings 3:19: "And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell"
2 Kings 8:12: "thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, wilt thou slay"
2 Kings 10:2: "you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armor;"
2 Kings 17:9: "from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city."
2 Kings 18:8: "thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city."
2 Chronicles 17:19: "beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah."
Psalms 89:40: "all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin."
Psalms 108:10: "Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?"
Isaiah 17:3: " The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant"
Isaiah 25:12: " And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to"
Isaiah 34:13: "in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court"
Jeremiah 1:18: "behold, I have made thee this day a defensed city, and an iron pillar, and brazen"
Jeremiah 4:5: "Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed cities."
Jeremiah 5:17: "thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou"
Jeremiah 6:27: "I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way."
Jeremiah 8:14: "sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities, and let us be silent there:"
Jeremiah 34:7: "Azekah: for these defensed cities remained of the cities of Judah."
Jeremiah 48:18: "the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strongholds."
Lamentations 2:2: "pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground:"
Lamentations 2:5: "all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning"
Daniel 11:15: "and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not"
Daniel 11:24: "yea, and he shall forecast his devices the strongholds, even for a time."
Daniel 11:39: "Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge"
Hosea 10:14: "arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel"
Amos 5:9: "so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress."
Micah 5:11: "of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds:"
Nahum 3:12: "All thy strongholds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall"
Nahum 3:14: "thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strongholds: go into clay, and tread the mortar,"
Habakkuk 1:10: "unto them: they shall deride every stronghold; for they shall heap dust, and take"
