בָּצַר
bâtsar
Meaning “to fortify”
BDB to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose; (Qal); to cut off; fortified, cut off…
38 verses
19 books · uncommon Hebrew Bible
First appears: Genesis 11:6
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בָּצַר 8 books
- Genesis 11:6 יִבָּצֵ֣ר Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Deuteronomy 1:28 וּ/בְצוּרֹ֖ת Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
- 2 Samuel 20:6 בְּצֻר֖וֹת David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.
- 2 Kings 18:13 הַ/בְּצֻר֖וֹת Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
- 2 Chronicles 17:2 הַ/בְּצֻר֑וֹת He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
- Isaiah 2:15 בְצוּרָֽה For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,
- Ezekiel 21:20 בְּצוּרָֽה You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
- Hosea 8:14 בְּצֻר֑וֹת For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send a fire on his cities, And it will devour its fortresses."
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