Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6877
צְרִיחַ
tseriachtser-ee'-akh
stronghold
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsᵉrîyach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6877is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6877
a citadel
The King James renders it: high place, 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
tseriach is rendered "stronghold". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 9:46On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
Judges 9:46צְרִ֔יחַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the underground chamber2
- and in the underground chambers1
- underground chamber of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צְרִי | tseri | balsam | Uses6 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- הַצְּרִ֔יחַ1
- הַצְּרִ֖יחַ1
- וּבַצְּרִחִ֖ים1
- צְרִ֔יחַ1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Judges
three uses
On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
- צְרִ֔יחַtzeriachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: underground chamber of
So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
- הַצְּרִ֔יחַhatzeriachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the underground chamber
- הַצְּרִ֖יחַhatzeriachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the underground chamber
1 Samuel
one use
Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
- וּבַצְּרִחִ֖יםuvatzerichimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and in the underground chambers
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 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.