Isaiah 34:13
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
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Hosea 10:14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
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מִבְצָר
mibtsâr · mib-tsawr'
2 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).
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And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
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fortress
FOR'TRESS, noun
1. Any fortified place; a fort; a castle; a strong hold; a place of defense or security. The English have a strong fortress on the rock of Gibraltar, or that rock is a fortress
2. Defense; safety; security;
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress Psalms 18:2.
FOR'TRESS, verb transitive To furnish with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
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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