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.
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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
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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H1219
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
no direct Strong's tag
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,
H1219
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.
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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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