Citadel
אַרְמוֹןStrong’s H0759armon (ar-mon)
Appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Armon is the Hebrew word usually translated “fortresses its”, “fortresses of” and “palaces its”. It appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died,”
Meaning
- Citadel, palace, fortress
How it's translated
- fortresses its 6
- fortresses of 6
- palaces its 4
- fortresses 2
- fortress of 1
- in fortress of 1
- in fortresses its 1
- in fortresses your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 11
- Jeremiah 5
- Isaiah 4
- Psalms 3
- Lamentations 2
- 1 Kings 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 15:25But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
- Psalms 48:3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
- Psalms 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
- Psalms 122:7Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
- Proverbs 18:19A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Hebrew dictionary
אַרְמוֹן armon · citadel
: palace citadel, palace, fortress Also means: ar.mon (אַרְמוֹן ": fortress" H0759H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “citadel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CITADEL, noun
A fortress or castle, in or near a city, intended for its defense; a place of arms.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.