Encampment
טִירָהStrong’s H2918tirah (ti-rah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tirah is the Hebrew word usually translated “encampments their”, “encampment their” and “battlement of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.”
Meaning
- Encampment, battlementencampment, tent camp · walled dwelling places, battlement (metaph.) · row (of stones)
How it's translated
- encampments their 2
- and by encampments their 1
- to encampments their 1
- encampment their 1
- a battlement of 1
- the rows of stones 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Song of Solomon 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 31:10And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
- 1 Chronicles 6:54Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
- Psalms 69:25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
- Song of Solomon 8:9If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
- Ezekiel 25:4Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
- Ezekiel 46:23And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
Hebrew dictionary
טִירָה tirah · encampment
1) encampment, battlement 1a) encampment, tent camp 1b) walled dwelling places, battlement (metaph.) 1c) row (of stones)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “encampment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENCAMP'MENT, noun
The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
- The place where an army or company is encamped; a camp; a regular order of tents or huts for the accommodation of an army or troop.
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.