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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
Read in context →Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
Browse those occurrences →This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
dâyêq · daw-yake'
a battering-tower
Strong's KJV usage: fort.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 25:1Strong's last: Ezekiel 17:17
Open full H1785 profile →mᵉtsad · mets-ad'
a fastness (as a covert of ambush)
Strong's KJV usage: castle, fort, (strong) hold, munition.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 33:27Strong's last: Ezekiel 33:27
Open full H4679 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: Isaiah 29:3Strong's last: Isaiah 29:3
Open full H4694 profile →ʻôphel · o'-fel
a tumor; also a mound, i.e. fortress
Strong's KJV usage: emerod, fort, strong hold, tower.
Strong's first: Isaiah 32:14Strong's last: Isaiah 32:14
Open full H6076 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
2 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
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FORT, noun [Latin fortis, strong.]
1. A fortified place; usually, a small fortified place; a place surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; also, any building or place fortified for security against an enemy; a castle.
2. A strong side, opposed to weak side or foible.
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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