ὀχύρωμα
fortress
also: a castle, stronghold, fastness fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3794 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun οχυρωμα centers on the idea of “fortress.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to 2 Corinthians (100%). It occurs only once, in 2 Corinthians 10:4. Lexicons map it across 2 senses — beyond “fortress” it also covers “a castle”, “stronghold”, and “fastness”. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3794 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Strong holds 1×
- American Standard Version: Strongholds 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Strongholds 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Strongholds 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3794 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3794 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3794 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3794 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a castle, stronghold, fortress, fastness
- anything on which one relies
Word origin
Derived from εχω (échō) (G2192) — to have.
From a remote derivative of G2192 (meaning to fortify through the idea of holding safely); a castle (figuratively argument ): - stronghold.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3794, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εξης hexēs G1836 next in order
- εξις héxis G1838 habit
- εσχατος éschatos G2078 last
- ευνουχος eunoûchos G2135 eunuch
- ισχυς ischýs G2479 strength
- οχλος óchlos G3793 multitude
- σχεδον schedón G4975 near
- σχημα schēma G4976 appearance
- σχολη scholḗ G4981 leisure
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οχυρωμα appears 31 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 30 verses in 15 books.
- 31
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 30
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 39:20 ὀχύρωμα
- 2 Samuel 22:2 ὀχύρωμα
- 2 Kings 8:12 ὀχύρωμα
- Job 19:6 ὀχύρωμα
- Psalms 88:41 ὀχύρωμα
- Proverbs 10:29 ὀχύρωμα
- Isaiah 22:10 ὀχύρωμα
- Jeremiah 30:16 ὀχύρωμα
- Lamentations 2:2 ὀχύρωμα
- Daniel 11:39 ὀχύρωμα
- Amos 5:9 ὀχύρωμα
- Micah 5:10 ὀχύρωμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3794) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 39:20 ὀχύρωμα Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
- Genesis 40:14 ὀχύρωμα But remember me when it will be well with you, and show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
- Genesis 41:14 ὀχύρωμα Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
- 2 Samuel 22:2 ὀχύρωμα and he said, Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
- 2 Kings 8:12 ὀχύρωμα Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.
- Job 19:6 ὀχύρωμα Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.
- Psalms 88:41 ὀχύρωμα
- Proverbs 10:29 ὀχύρωμα The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 12:11 ὀχύρωμα He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
- Proverbs 12:12 ὀχύρωμα The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, But the root of the righteous flourishes.
- Proverbs 21:22 ὀχύρωμα A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the strength of its confidence.
- Proverbs 30:28 ὀχύρωμα You can catch a lizard with your hands, Yet it is in kings' palaces.
- Isaiah 22:10 ὀχύρωμα and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall;
- Isaiah 23:14 ὀχύρωμα Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
- Isaiah 24:22 ὀχύρωμα They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
- Isaiah 34:13 ὀχύρωμα Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
- Jeremiah 30:16 ὀχύρωμα Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.
- Jeremiah 31:7 ὀχύρωμα For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
- Jeremiah 31:18 ὀχύρωμα I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Jeremiah 31:41 ὀχύρωμα
- Lamentations 2:2 ὀχύρωμα The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it.
- Lamentations 2:5 ὀχύρωμα The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
- Daniel 11:39 ὀχύρωμα He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god: whoever acknowledges [him] he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price.
- Amos 5:9 ὀχύρωμα Who brings sudden destruction on the strong, So that destruction comes on the fortress.
- Micah 5:10 ὀχύρωμα "It will happen in that day," says Yahweh, "That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, And will destroy your chariots.
- Nahum 3:12 ὀχύρωμα All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
- Nahum 3:14 ὀχύρωμα Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
- Habakkuk 1:10 ὀχύρωμα Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
- Zechariah 9:3 ὀχύρωμα Tyre built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.
- Zechariah 9:12 ὀχύρωμα Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3794) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
