טִירָה
encampment
‘encampment’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2918 appears in the Book of Song of Solomon — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Song of Solomon
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.
טירה — transliterated ṭîyrâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “encampment.” Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. Spanning 7 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Ezekiel (29% of all occurrences). Debuting at Genesis 25:16, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2918 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 43%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 29%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 29%
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: All their goodly castles 1×, Castles 1×, Let their habitation 1×
- American Standard Version: Encampments 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Encampments 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: According to their habitations 1×, Battlement of 1×, Camps 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2918 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2918 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2918 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2918 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses BDB 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.
- encampment, battlement
- encampment, tent camp
- walled dwelling places, battlement (metaphorically)
- row (of stones)
Word origin
[ טִירָה ] n.f. encampment, battlement
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from טור (ṭûwr) (H2905) — row.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
טִירָה
- v. Ez. XLVI, guard, trnsf. surrounding of an oven, brick-work. Kel. V, 3 טִירַת התנור. Tosef. ib., B. Kam. IV, 3 חפר … להן ט׳ if he made a guard around them by digging in the ground. Ib. טִירַת כירה (Kel. l. c. עטרת), v. כִּירָה. Ib. הרי הן כט׳ (Var. corrupt קטירה) are in ritual law like &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H2918 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/טִּיר֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 46:23 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/טִֽירֹתָ֑/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 25:16 | 1 |
| טִ֣ירַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Song of Solomon 8:9 | 1 |
| טִֽירָתָ֥/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 69:25 | 1 |
| טִֽירֹתָ֑/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 31:10 | 1 |
| טִירֽוֹתֵי/הֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 25:4 | 1 |
| לְ/טִירוֹתָ֖/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | 1 Chronicles 6:54 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2918, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
