Strong's #4679: mtsad (pronounced mets-ad')

or mtsad {mets-awd'}; or (feminine) mtsadah {mets-aw-daw'}; from 6679; a fastness (as a covert of ambush):--castle, fort, (strong) hold, munition.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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metsad / metsâd / metsâdâh

1) fort, stronghold, fastness

1a) mountain-fastness

1b) stronghold

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H6679

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Judges 6:2: "the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strongholds."
1 Samuel 23:14: "And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph."
1 Samuel 23:19: "David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which"
1 Samuel 23:29: "went up from thence, and dwelt in strongholds at En-gedi."
1 Chronicles 11:7: "And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David."
1 Chronicles 12:8: "there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men"
1 Chronicles 12:16: "of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David."
Isaiah 33:16: "shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters"
Jeremiah 48:41: "Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that"
Jeremiah 51:30: "have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:"
Ezekiel 19:9: "the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more"
Ezekiel 33:27: "will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence."