Deuteronomy 20:20
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
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Bulwarks
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Isaiah 26:1
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
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חֵיל
chêyl · khale
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
Strong's KJV usage: army, bulwark, host, poor, rampart, trench, wall.
Strong's first: Isaiah 26:1Strong's last: Isaiah 26:1
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chêylâh · khay-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
an intrenchment
Strong's KJV usage: bulwark.
Strong's first: Psalms 48:13Strong's last: Psalms 48:13
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mâtsôwd · maw-tsode'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a net (for capturing animals or fishes); a fastness or (beseiging) tower
Strong's KJV usage: bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.
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Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 9:14Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 9:14
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mâtsôwr · maw-tsore'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
Strong's KJV usage: besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.
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Strong's first: Deuteronomy 20:20Strong's last: Deuteronomy 20:20
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pinnâh · pin-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
an angle; by implication, a pinnacle; figuratively, a chieftain
Strong's KJV usage: bulwark, chief, corner, stay, tower.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 26:15Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 26:15
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H4692
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
H6438
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
H2430
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
H4685
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
H2426
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
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bulwark
BUL'WARK, noun
1. In fortification, a bastion, or a rampart; a mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed with bastions, curtains, etc.
2. A fortification; also, any means of defense; as, a navy is the bulwark of a nation.
3. That which secures against an enemy or external annoyance; a screen or shelter; means of protection and safety.
Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Isaiah 26:1.
BUL'WARK, verb transitive To fortify with a rampart; to secure by a fortification; to protect.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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