בִּצָּרוֹן
bitstsârôwn · H1225 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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fortress, stronghold
A fortified town, or a fortified place within a town or on its walls
ExamplesZechariah 9:12 Return to the stronghold, you prisoners who have the hope; This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 5 words
- טִירָה ṭîyrâh · H2918 · camp, encampment, village
- Both lexemes denote fortified structures or defensive installations, and share a genuine core sense of fortification even though the target occurs only rarely and טִירָה's gloss also includes broader senses such as 'habitation,' 'palace,' or 'row.'
- מָצוֹד mâtsôwd · H4685 · prey, victim, (trammel) net
- Both lexemes denote fortified structures — a stronghold, bulwark, or fortification. מָצֹוד has broader polysemy (including traps, weapons, or control), but its fortification sense is independently attested and genuinely overlaps with the target.
- מְצוּרָה mᵉtsûwrâh · H4694 · fortification, siege-works
- Both words denote fortified defensive structures, within the field of military fortifications, and could substitute for each other in describing fortified places.
- מְצַד mᵉtsad · H4679 · prey, victim, (trammel) net
- Both lexemes denote fortified structures or strongholds, occupying the same semantic space — genuinely overlapping, interchangeable terms for defensive fortifications.
- מָעוֹז mâʻôwz · H4581 · stronghold, refuge
- Both lexemes denote fortified defensive structures (stronghold/fortress), a genuine semantic overlap representing true near-synonymy rather than mere correlation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fortifications001003002003
- בִּצָּרוֹן denotes a stronghold or fortress, as in Zechariah 9:12's call "return to the stronghold, you prisoners who have the hope" (לְבִצָּרוֹן), naming the fortified place of refuge.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1225. bitstsaron בִּצָּרוֺן noun [masculine] stronghold, ׳לְב Zec 9:12.
בִּצָּרוֺן noun [masculine] stronghold, ׳לְב Zec 9:12.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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