Strong's #4581: ma`owz (pronounced maw-oze')

(also mauwz {maw-ooz'}); or mahoz {maw-oze'} (also ma,uz {maw-ooz'}; from 5810; a fortified place; figuratively, a defence:--force, fort(-ress), rock, strength(-en), (X most) strong (hold).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mâ‛ôz / mâ‛ûz

1) place or means of safety, protection, refuge, stronghold

1a) place of safety, fastness, harbour, stronghold

1b) refuge (of God) (figuratively)

1c) human protection (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5810

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Judges 6:26: "upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second"
2 Samuel 22:33: "God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect."
Nehemiah 8:10: "for the joy of the LORD is your strength."
Psalms 27:1: "whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom"
Psalms 28:8: "is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed."
Psalms 31:2: "me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save"
Psalms 31:4: "that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength."
Psalms 37:39: "But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble."
Psalms 43:2: "For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go"
Psalms 52:7: "that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened"
Psalms 60:7: "Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;"
Psalms 108:8: "Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;"
Proverbs 10:29: "The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity."
Isaiah 17:9: "In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch,"
Isaiah 17:10: "and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant"
Isaiah 23:4: "for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not,"
Isaiah 23:11: "against the merchant city, to destroy the strongholds"
Isaiah 23:14: "ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste."
Isaiah 25:4: "For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge"
Isaiah 25:4: "thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm,"
Isaiah 27:5: "Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace"
Isaiah 30:2: "asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!"
Isaiah 30:3: " Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion."
Jeremiah 16:19: "O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come"
Ezekiel 24:25: "when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire"
Ezekiel 30:15: "my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude"
Daniel 11:1: "the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen"
Daniel 11:7: "which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal"
Daniel 11:10: "and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress."
Daniel 11:19: "Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found."
Daniel 11:31: "on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination"
Daniel 11:38: "his estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew"
Daniel 11:39: "Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge"
Joel 3:16: "and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel."
Nahum 1:7: "The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust"
Nahum 3:11: "thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy."