צְרִיחַtsᵉrîyach

perhaps excavation, underground chamber (Judges 9:49; Judges 9:46; 1 Samuel 13:6)

Pronunciation: tser-ee'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6877

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 9:46 When the leading citizens who lived in the tower of Shechem heard what had happened, they ran and hid in the temple of Baal-berith.
  • Judges 9:49 So each of them cut down some branches, following Abimelech’s example. They piled the branches against the walls of the temple and set them on fire. So all the people who had lived in the tower of Shechem died—about 1,000 men and women.
  • 1 Samuel 13:6 The men of Israel saw what a tight spot they were in; and because they were hard pressed by the enemy, they tried to hide in caves, thickets, rocks, holes, and cisterns.
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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).