Numbers 32:17
But 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.
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But 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.
Read in context →A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
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bâtsar · baw-tsar'
to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification)
Strong's KJV usage: cut off, (de-) fenced, fortify, (grape) gather(-er), mighty things, restrain, strong, wall (up), withhold.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:5Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:16
Open full H1219 profile →mibtsâr · mib-tsawr'
a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender
Strong's KJV usage: (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).
Strong's first: Numbers 32:17Strong's last: Daniel 11:15
Open full H4013 profile →mᵉtsûwrâh · mets-oo-raw'
a hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of siege), or (subjectively) a rampart (of protection), (abstractly) fortification
Strong's KJV usage: fenced (city, fort, munition, strong hold.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 11:10Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 21:3
Open full H4694 profile →mâlêʼ · maw-lay'
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, × draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-) flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-) full, have wholly.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 23:7Strong's last: 2 Samuel 23:7
Open full H4390 profile →mâtsôwr · maw-tsore'
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.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 8:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 8:5
Open full H4692 profile →ʻâzaq · aw-zak'
to grub over
Strong's KJV usage: fence about.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:2Strong's last: Isaiah 5:2
Open full H5823 profile →sûwk · sook
to entwine, i.e. shut in (for formation, protection or restraint)
Strong's KJV usage: fence, (make an) hedge (up).
Strong's first: Job 10:11Strong's last: Job 10:11
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But 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.
And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
And 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.
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
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.
And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
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FEN'CED, participle passive Inclosed with a fence; guarded; fortified.
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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