Fortification
מִבְצָרStrong’s H4013mivtsar (miv-tsar)
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mivtsar is the Hebrew word usually translated “fortification”, “fortifications your” and “fortress”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.”
Meaning
- Fortification, fortress, fortified city, stronghold
How it's translated
- fortification 16
- fortifications your 3
- fortress 2
- fortresses your 2
- in fortresses 1
- fortification of 1
- fortress of 1
- fortifications their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 7
- 2 Kings 5
- Numbers 3
- Joshua 3
- Isaiah 3
- Daniel 3
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:24In contextHe shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
- Daniel 11:39In contextThus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
- Numbers 13:19And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
- Numbers 32:17But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
- Numbers 32:36And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
- Joshua 10:20And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.
All 37 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִבְצָר mivtsar · fortification
fortification, fortress, fortified city, stronghold
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fortification” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORTIFICA'TION, noun
[See Fortify.]
- The act of fortifying.
- The art or science of fortifying places to defend them against an enemy, by means of moats, ramparts, parapets and other bulwarks.
- The works erected to defend a place against attack.
- A fortified place; a fort; a castle.
All definitions
- Additional strength.
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.