מִבְצָר mivtsar

Hebrew word for “fortification” · Strong’s H4013 · used 37 times in 37 verses

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Meaning

fortification, fortress, fortified city, stronghold

How it is translated

Glosses given for mivtsar in context, with how often each is used:

• fortification 18
• fortifications 7
• fortresses 4
• fortress 4
• strongholds 3
• will be on fortifications 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Daniel 11 (3), Numbers 32 (2), Joshua 19 (2), Lamentations 2 (2), Nahum 3 (2), Numbers 13 (1), Joshua 10 (1), 1 Samuel 6 (1), 2 Samuel 24 (1), 2 Kings 3 (1)

Forms

• מבצר 16
• מבצריך 6
• המבצר 5
• מבצריו 2
• במבצרים 1
• מבצריהם 1
• ומבצר 1
• במבצריה 1
• מבצרי 1
• מבצרות 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mivtsar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עִיר ir “city” 21
• עַד ad “till” 9
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 7
• בַּת bat “daughter” 5
• רָטַשׁ ratash “to dash in pieces” 2
• גְּדֵרָה gederah “wall” 2
• כָּבוֹד kavod “glory” 3
• שֹׁד shod “violence” 2
• אַרְמוֹן armon “citadel” 2
• תְּאֵנָה teenah “fig” 2
• צֹר tsor “Tyre” 2
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 4

Key verses

The verses using mivtsar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Kings 8:12 — And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set…
• Isaiah 17:3 — The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,…
• Isaiah 34:13 — And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
• Jeremiah 1:18 — For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the…
• Jeremiah 4:5 — Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into…
• Jeremiah 5:17 — And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat…
• Jeremiah 8:14 — Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence,…
• Jeremiah 34:7 — When the king of Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these…
• Jeremiah 48:18 — Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy…
• Lamentations 2:2 — The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he…
• Lamentations 2:5 — The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the…
• Hosea 10:14 — Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.