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Lexicon :: Strong's H4013 - miḇṣār

Aa
מִבְצָר
Transliteration
miḇṣār
Pronunciation
mib-tsawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

מִבְצָר mibtsâr, mib-tsawr'; also (in plural) feminine (Daniel 11:l5) מִבְצָרָה mibtsârâh; from H1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender:—(de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H4013 in the following manner: hold (13x), fenced (12x), fortress (6x), defenced (4x), strong (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H4013 in the following manner: hold (13x), fenced (12x), fortress (6x), defenced (4x), strong (2x).

  1. fortification, fortress, fortified city, stronghold

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִבְצָר mibtsâr, mib-tsawr'; also (in plural) feminine (Daniel 11:l5) מִבְצָרָה mibtsârâh; from H1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender:—(de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).
STRONGS H4013: Abbreviations
† מִבְצָר noun masculineIsaiah 17:3 fortification — מִבְצָר Numbers 32:71 + 18 times; construct מִבְצַר Joshua 19:29 + 2 times; plural מִבְצָרִים Numbers 13:19; Daniel 11:24; מִבְצָרוֺת Daniel 11:15; מִבְצְרֵי Lamentations 2:2; Daniel 11:39; suffix מִבְצָרֶיךָ Hosea 10:14 + 2 times; מִבְצָרַיִךְ Nahum 3:12; מִבְצָרָ֑יִךְ Nahum 3:14; Jeremiah 48:18; מִבְצָרָיו Psalm 89:41; Lamentations 2:5; מִבְצָרֶיהָ Isaiah 34:13; מִבְצְרֵיהֶם 2 Kings 8:12; — fortification, especially in phrase ׅ (המ׳ עיר (ערי) מ׳ = fortified city Numbers 32:17, 36; Joshua 10:20; Joshua 19:29, 35; 1 Samuel 6:18; 2 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 10:2; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings 18:8; Jeremiah 4:5; Jeremiah 5:17; Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 34:7; Psalm 108:11 (עיר מ׳ = עיר מָצוֺר Psalm 60:11), 2 Chronicles 17:19; Daniel 11:15 (מ׳ in this connection singular except Jeremiah 5:17 & Daniel 11:15 (מבצרות)); Jeremiah 1:18 figurative of prophet, so without עיר Jeremiah 6:27; fortress, stronghold, literal without עיר etc. Numbers 13:19; 2 Kings 8:12; Jeremiah 48:18; Isaiah 17:3; Isaiah 25:12 (משׁגב חומתיך מ׳) Isaiah 34:13 (|| ארמנת), Lamentations 2:2, 5 (|| id.) Psalm 89:41; Hosea 10:14; Amos 5:9; Micah 5:10; Nahum 3:12, 14; Habakkuk 1:10; Daniel 11:24, 39; followed by proper name צֹד מ׳ 2 Samuel 24:7 (compare Joshua 19:29 צֹר עיר מ׳).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

13:19; 13:19; 32:17; 32:36

Joshua

10:20; 19:29; 19:29; 19:29; 19:35

1 Samuel

6:18

2 Samuel

24:7

2 Kings

3:19; 8:12; 8:12; 10:2; 17:9; 18:8

2 Chronicles

17:19

Psalms

60:11; 89:41; 89:41; 108:11

Isaiah

17:3; 17:3; 25:12; 34:13; 34:13

Jeremiah

1:18; 4:5; 5:17; 5:17; 6:27; 8:14; 34:7; 48:18; 48:18

Lamentations

2:2; 2:2; 2:5; 2:5

Daniel

11:15; 11:15; 11:15; 11:24; 11:24; 11:39; 11:39

Hosea

10:14; 10:14

Amos

5:9

Micah

5:10

Nahum

3:12; 3:12; 3:14; 3:14

Habakkuk

1:10

H4013

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Strong's Number H4013 matches the Hebrew מִבְצָר (miḇṣār),
which occurs 37 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29 - And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:35 - And the walled towns are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - And the gold mice, one for every town of the Philistines, the property of the five lords, walled towns as well as country places: and the great stone where they put the ark of the Lord is still in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:19 - And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:19 - These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:40 - All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:10 - Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:12 - And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 - Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 - They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:27 - I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:18 - Come down from your glory, O people of Dibon, and take your seat in the place of the waste; for the attacker of Moab has gone up against you, sending destruction on your strong places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2 - The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 - The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:15 - So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24 - Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39 - And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14 - So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:9 - Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 - I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 - All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:10 - He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
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