מִבְצָרmibtsâr
fortification (Isaiah 17:3; Numbers 32:71; Joshua 19:29; Numbers 13:19; Daniel 11:24)
Pronunciation: mib-tsawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4013
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 37 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 13:19 See what kind of land they live in. Is it good or bad? Do their towns have walls, or are they unprotected like open camps?
- Numbers 32:17 Then we will arm ourselves and lead our fellow Israelites into battle until we have brought them safely to their land. Meanwhile, our families will stay in the fortified towns we build here, so they will be safe from any attacks by the local people.
- Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran. These were all fortified towns with pens for their flocks.
- Joshua 10:20 So Joshua and the Israelite army continued the slaughter and completely crushed the enemy. They totally wiped out the five armies except for a tiny remnant that managed to reach their fortified towns.
- Joshua 19:29 Then the boundary turned toward Ramah and the fortress of Tyre, where it turned toward Hosah and came to the Mediterranean Sea. The territory also included Mehebel, Aczib,
- Joshua 19:35 The fortified towns included in this territory were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,
See every passage
- Numbers 13:19, 32:17, 32:36
- Joshua 10:20, 19:29, 19:35
- 1 Samuel 6:18
- 2 Samuel 24:7
- 2 Kings 3:19, 8:12, 10:2, 17:9, 18:8
- 2 Chronicles 17:19
- Psalms 89:40, 108:10
- Isaiah 17:3, 25:12, 34:13
- Jeremiah 1:18, 4:5, 5:17, 6:27, 8:14, 34:7, 48:18
- Lamentations 2:2, 2:5
- Daniel 11:15, 11:24, 11:39
- Hosea 10:14
- Amos 5:9
- Micah 5:11
- Nahum 3:12, 3:14
- Habakkuk 1:10
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).