Strong's Concordance H4013

Original Word: מִבְצָר
Transliteration: mibtsâr
Phonetic Spelling: mib-tsawr'
also (in plural) feminine (Daniel 11:l5) מִבְצָרָה; from H1219; a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender; (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).

Usages throughout the bible

Numbers 13:19 - And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; H4013

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 H4013 cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Numbers 32:36 - And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced H4013 cities: and folds for sheep.

Joshua 10:20 - And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced H4013 cities.

Joshua 19:29 - And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong H4013 city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

Joshua 19:35 - And the fenced H4013 cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,

1 Samuel 6:18 - And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced H4013 cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

2 Samuel 24:7 - And came to the strong hold H4013 of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.

2 Kings 3:19 - And ye shall smite every fenced H4013 city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

2 Kings 8:12 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds H4013 wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

2 Kings 10:2 - Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced H4013 city also, and armour;

2 Kings 17:9 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced H4013 city.

2 Kings 18:8 - He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced H4013 city.

2 Chronicles 17:19 - These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced H4013 cities throughout all Judah.

Psalms 89:40 - Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds H4013 to ruin.

Psalms 108:10 - Who will bring me into the strong H4013 city? who will lead me into Edom?

Isaiah 17:3 - The fortress H4013 also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 25:12 - And the fortress H4013 of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah 34:13 - And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses H4013 thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

Jeremiah 1:18 - For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced H4013 city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

Jeremiah 4:5 - Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced H4013 cities.

Jeremiah 5:17 - And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced H4013 cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Jeremiah 6:27 - I have set thee for a tower and a fortress H4013 among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

Jeremiah 8:14 - Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced H4013 cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Jeremiah 34:7 - When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced H4013 cities remained of the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 48:18 - Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. H4013

Lamentations 2:2 - The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds H4013 of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Lamentations 2:5 - The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, H4013 and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Daniel 11:15 - So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced H4013 cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

Daniel 11:24 - He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, H4013 even for a time.

Daniel 11:39 - Thus shall he do in the most strong holds H4013 with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

Hosea 10:14 - Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses H4013 shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

Amos 5:9 - That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. H4013

Micah 5:11 - And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: H4013

Nahum 3:12 - All thy strong holds H4013 shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

Nahum 3:14 - Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: H4013 go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

Habakkuk 1:10 - And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; H4013 for they shall heap dust, and take it.