Stronghold
צְרִיחַStrong’s H6877tseriach (tse-ri-ach)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tseriach is the Hebrew word usually translated “underground chamber”, “underground chamber of” and “underground chambers”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.”
Meaning
- Excavation, underground chamber, cellar, underground roommeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- the underground chamber 2
- underground chamber of 1
- and in underground chambers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- 1 Samuel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 9:49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- 1 Samuel 13:6When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
Hebrew dictionary
צְרִיחַ tseriach · stronghold
1) excavation, underground chamber, cellar, underground room 1a) meaning uncertain
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.