Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4694
מְצוּרָה
metsurahmets-oo-raw'
fortress
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉtsûwrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4694is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4694
a hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of siege), or (subjectively) a rampart (of protection), (abstractly) fortification
The King James renders it: fenced (city, fort, munition, strong hold.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
metsurah is rendered "fortress". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 11:10Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
2 Chronicles 11:10מְצֻרֽוֹת׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's eight uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- fortifications3
- the fortifications3
- fortification2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמְּצֻר֑וֹת1
- הַמְּצֻר֔וֹת1
- הַמְּצֻר֖וֹת1
- מְצוּרָ֖ה1
- מְצֻרָ֑ה1
- מְצֻר֖וֹת1
- מְצֻרֽוֹת׃1
- מְצֻרֹֽת׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural3HNcfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural3HTd/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
2 Chronicles
six uses
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
- מְצֻרֽוֹת׃metzurotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: fortifications
He strengthened their fortresses and put officers in them, with supplies of food, oil, and wine.
- הַמְּצֻר֑וֹתhametzurotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the fortifications
Rehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.
- הַמְּצֻר֔וֹתhametzurotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the fortifications
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
- הַמְּצֻר֖וֹתhametzurotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the fortifications
Because the land was at peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah. In those days no one made war with him, because the LORD had given him rest.
- מְצוּרָ֖הmetzurahnoun · feminine singulartagged: fortification
Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
- מְצֻר֖וֹתmetzurotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: fortifications
Isaiah
one use
I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.
- מְצֻרֹֽת׃metzurotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: fortifications
Nahum
one use
One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
- מְצֻרָ֑הmetzurahnoun · feminine singulartagged: fortification
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.