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
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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
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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
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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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H4013
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.
H4013
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;
H4013
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.
H4013
He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
H1219
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.
H1219
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.
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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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