Stronghold
מְצָדStrong’s H4679metsad (me-tsad)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metsad is the Hebrew word usually translated “strongholds”, “fortress” and “strongholds of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.”
Meaning
- Fort, stronghold, fastnessmountain-fastness · stronghold
How it's translated
- in the strongholds 4
- to the fortress 2
- the strongholds 1
- in strongholds of 1
- in the fortress 1
- strongholds of 1
- and the strongholds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Jeremiah 2
- Judges 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 23:14And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
- 1 Samuel 23:29And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.
- 1 Chronicles 11:7And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
- 1 Chronicles 12:8And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
- 1 Chronicles 12:16And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
Hebrew dictionary
מְצָד metsad · stronghold
1) fort, stronghold, fastness 1a) mountain-fastness 1b) stronghold
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stronghold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRONG-HOLD, noun
[strong and hold.]
A fastness; a fort; a fortified place; a place of security.
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.