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And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
Read in context →For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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maʻgâl · mah-gawl'
a track (literally or figuratively); also a rampart (as circular)
Strong's KJV usage: going, path, trench, way(-side).
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:20Strong's last: 1 Samuel 26:7
Open full H4570 profile →tᵉʻâlâh · teh-aw-law'
a channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)
Strong's KJV usage: conduit, cured, healing, little river, trench, watercourse.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 18:32Strong's last: 1 Kings 18:38
Open full H8585 profile →chárax · khar'-ax
a stake, i.e. (by implication) a palisade or rampart (military mound for circumvallation in a siege)
Strong's KJV usage: :--trench.
Strong's first: Luke 19:43Strong's last: Luke 19:43
Open full G5482 profile →chêyl · khale
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
Strong's KJV usage: army, bulwark, host, poor, rampart, trench, wall.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 20:15Strong's last: 2 Samuel 20:15
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And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
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TRENCH, verb transitive
1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]
2. To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch. [In this sense, entrench is more generally used.]
3. To furrow; to form with deep furrows by plowing.
4. To cut a long gash. [Not in use.]
TRENCH, verb intransitive To encroach. [See Entrench.]
TRENCH, noun A long narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as a trench for draining land.
1. In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy. The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials, Hence, the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, etc.open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach.
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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