20 occurrences

'Fortress' in the Bible

David captured the fortress of Zion, the city of David.

David occupied the fortress and called it the city of David. And David built all around [it] from the Millo and {inward}.

and came to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to the Negev of Judah at Beersheba.

It happened that when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went to the citadel fortress of the house of the king, and he burnt the house of the king over him with fire so that he died.

Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, so he attacked him in Samaria in the citadel fortress of [the] palace of the king, with Argob and Arieh. With him [also were] fifty men from the children of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place.

And David lived in the fortress. Therefore they called it the city of David.

And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, {soldiers fit for war}, expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And {they had faces like lions} [and were] swift as gazelles upon the mountains.

And some of the sons of Benjamin and [from] Judah came to the fortress, to David.

For you [are] my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.

Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always; you have ordained to save me, because you [are] my rock and my fortress.

my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and [one] in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me.

Be ashamed, Sidon, for [the] sea, the fortress of the sea said, saying, "I was not in labor, and I have not given birth, and I have not reared young men, brought up young women.

Wail, ships of Tarshish! For your fortress is destroyed

And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds and thistle plants in her fortresses; and it shall be [the] settlement of jackals, green grass for [the] daughters of an ostrich.

Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I [will] restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and I will have compassion on his dwellings, and [the] city will be rebuilt upon its mound, and [the] citadel fortress will stand on its rightful site.

"But his sons will wage war and they will gather a multitude of great forces and {he will advance with great force}, and he will overflow [like a flood] and he will pass through and he will return, and they will wage war up to his fortress.

Bible Theasaurus

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מבצרה מבצר 
Mibtsar 
Usage: 37

מעז מעז מעוּז מעוז 
Ma`owz 
Usage: 36

מצדה מצוּדה מצוּד 
Matsuwd 
Usage: 22

מצוּר מצור 
Matsowr 
Usage: 26

מצור 
Matsowr 
Usage: 5