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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Fenced
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Zephaniah 1:16
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
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11 occurrences in 11 verses.
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בָּצַר
bâtsar · baw-tsar'
15 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:5Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:16
Open full H1219 profile →מִבְצָר
mibtsâr · mib-tsawr'
12 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender
Strong's KJV usage: (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 32:17Strong's last: Daniel 11:15
Open full H4013 profile →מְצוּרָה
mᵉtsûwrâh · mets-oo-raw'
5 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 11:10Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 21:3
Open full H4694 profile →מָלֵא
mâlêʼ · maw-lay'
1 times translated as this KJV form248 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 23:7Strong's last: 2 Samuel 23:7
Open full H4390 profile →מָצוֹר
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 8:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 8:5
Open full H4692 profile →עָזַק
ʻâzaq · aw-zak'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to grub over
Strong's KJV usage: fence about.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:2Strong's last: Isaiah 5:2
Open full H5823 profile →שׂוּךְ
sûwk · sook
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to entwine, i.e. shut in (for formation, protection or restraint)
Strong's KJV usage: fence, (make an) hedge (up).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 10:11Strong's last: Job 10:11
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H4692
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
H4694
And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
H4694
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.
H4694
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
H4694
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.
H1219
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.
H4013
These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
H1219
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
H4694
And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
H1219
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
H1219
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
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fenced
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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