Strong's Lexicon

H4694

H4694 — מְצוּרָה מְצוּרָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmtsuwrahnoun femOccurrences: 8TWOT: 1898b

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4694
Word:	מְצוּרָה מְצוּרָה
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	feminine of H4692
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	8
Transliteration:	mtsuwrah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mets-oo-raw' (or mtsurah {mets-oo-raw'}) n-f.
Meaning:	1. a hemming in 2. (objectively) a mound (of siege) 3. (subjectively) a rampart (of protection) 4. (abstractly) fortification
KJV Renderings:	fenced (city, fort, munition, strong hold.

Use Strong's responsibly

Strong's is an index and starting point, not the final meaning of a word. Do not build doctrine from a gloss, root, or number. Test meaning by sentence, grammar, authorial usage, context, and the passage argument.

Read: Using Strong's Responsibly

Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB7014

מְצוּרָה noun feminine siege-works, rampart; — absolute ׳ מ Nah 2:2; 2Chr 14:5 plural מְצוּרוֺת 2Chr 11:11 +, מְצֻרֹת Isa 29:3, etc.; —

1. siege-works Isa 29:3.

2. rampart ׳ נָצוֺר מ Nah 2:2 guard the rampart / (|| צַפֵּה דֶרֶךְ; We Now derive from נצר, i.e. keep watch ! ), 2Chr 11:11, עָרֵי מְצוּרָה 2Chr 14:5 fortified cities, so עָרַי (הַ)מְצוּרוֺת v.2Chr 14:10 v 2Chr 14:23 ; 2Chr 12:4 ; 2Chr 21:3 .

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מצורה (m’tzoo-rah’)

2 Chronicles 11:10

KJV: And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.

EHCC: in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities

2 Chronicles 12:4

KJV: And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

EHCC: he took the fexced cities

2 Chronicles 14:6

KJV: And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the Lord had given him rest.

EHCC: (5).he built fenced cities |

Isaiah 29:3

KJV: And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

EHCC: 1 will raise forts against thee.

Nahum 2:1

KJV: He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.He…: or, The disperser, or, hammer

EHCC: (2).keep the munition, watch the way,

Semantic & Concept Relationships

Explore source-defined lexical senses and semantic domains related to this Strong's entry. These links support vocabulary discovery; they do not determine meaning in any passage.

מְצוּרָה — semantic senses and domains

The Englishman's Concordance section on this page remains the occurrence-navigation authority.

Semantic data in this module is under CC BY-SA 4.0, separate from existing page/site terms. Methodology; methodology JSON; sources and licences; attribution JSON.