מִשְׂגָּב
Misgab
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 9 times (53%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 8 times (47%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 17 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4869 appears — 16 distinct verses across 4 books. 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.
2 Samuel 1 verse
Psalms 12 verses
- Psalms 9:9 מִשְׂגָּ֣ב מִ֝שְׂגָּ֗ב n c ms n c ms Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; A high tower in times of trouble.
- Psalms 18:2 מִשְׂגַּבִּֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Psalms 46:7 מִשְׂגָּֽב n c ms Yahweh of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Psalms 46:11 מִשְׂגָּֽב n c ms Yahweh of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Psalms 48:3 לְ/מִשְׂגָּֽב prep + n c ms God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
- Psalms 59:9 מִשְׂגַּבִּֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, For God is my high tower.
- Psalms 59:16 מִשְׂגָּ֣ב n c ms But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, A refuge in the day of my distress.
- Psalms 59:17 מִ֝שְׂגַּבִּ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
- Psalms 62:2 מִ֝שְׂגַּבִּ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.
- Psalms 62:6 מִ֝שְׂגַּבִּ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
- Psalms 94:22 לְ/מִשְׂגָּ֑ב prep + n c ms But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
- Psalms 144:2 מִשְׂגַּבִּ֪/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs My loving kindness, my fortress, My high tower, my deliverer, My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me.
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 25:12 מִשְׂגַּ֣ב n c ms cs The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
- Isaiah 33:16 מִשְׂגַּבּ֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
Jeremiah 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.
משגב (misgâb) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Misgab.” Psalms dominates its distribution — 12 of 16 verses. Spanning 16 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in 2 Samuel 22:3. For the data behind this summary, explore 16-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4869 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 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 16 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 12 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 25%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: High tower 3×, Is my defence 3×, He is my defence 2×
- American Standard Version†: High tower 4×, God is my high tower 2×, He is my high tower 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Fortress 5×, Stronghold 5×, Are my fortress 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Stronghold 7×, High tower 2×, Is my stronghold 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4869 across 17† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4869 across 17† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 H4869 across 17† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4869 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
משגב I [m. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 60] secure height, retreat
- 1.
- a. = stronghold, מִבְצַר מ׳ חֹמֹתֶיךָ Is 25:12. e.g. Isaiah 25:12
- b. fig. of security Is 33:16. e.g. Isaiah 33:16
- 2. fig. of God as refuge ψ 9:10(×2), 18:3 = 2 S 22:3, ψ 46:8, 12; 48:4; 59:10, 17, 18; 62:3, 7; 94:22; 144:2. e.g. Psalms 9:10
משגב II perhaps n.pr.loc. in Moab
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
II. n.[m. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 60] secure height, retreat;—מ׳ ψ 9:10 +; cstr. מִשְׂגַּב Is 25:12; sf. מִשְׂגַּבִּי ψ 18:3 +, etc.;—
III. perhaps n.pr.loc. in Moab;—הַמּ׳ Je 48:1 (v. SchwallyZAW viii (1888), 196 Albrl.c.), Αμαθ; Gf thinks appell. of Ḳir Moab (v. ii. קִיר); most sub i. מ׳ 1.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שגב (sâgab) (H7682) — to be high.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H4869 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִ֝שְׂגַּבִּ֗/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 59:17 | 3 |
| מִשְׂגַּבִּֽ/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 18:2 | 2 |
| מִשְׂגָּ֣ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 9:9 | 2 |
| מִשְׂגָּֽב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 46:7 | 2 |
| הַ/מִּשְׂגָּ֖ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 48:1 | 1 |
| לְ/מִשְׂגָּ֑ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 94:22 | 1 |
| לְ/מִשְׂגָּֽב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 48:3 | 1 |
| מִ֝שְׂגָּ֗ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 9:9 | 1 |
| מִשְׂגַּ֣ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 25:12 | 1 |
| מִשְׂגַּבּ֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 33:16 | 1 |
| מִשְׂגַּבִּ/י֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Samuel 22:3 | 1 |
| מִשְׂגַּבִּ֪/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 144:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4869, 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.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Misgab). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Height, a town of Moab, or simply, the height=the citadel, some fortress so called; or perhaps a general name for the highlands of Moab, as some think (Jer. 48:1). In Isa. 25:12, the word is rendered "high fort."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(height), a place in Moab. (Jeremiah 48:1) It appears to be mentioned also in (Isaiah 25:12) thorough there rendered in the Authorized Version "high fort."
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 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.
