# מִבְצָר (mivtsar)

Israeli respelling: miv-tsar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4013. 37 Old Testament occurrences.

a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender

King James renderings: (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/mivtsar-h4013

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/19) — And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in str…
- [Numbers 32:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/17) — But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall…
- [Numbers 32:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/36) — And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
- [Joshua 10:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/20) — And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were con…
- [Joshua 19:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/19/29) — And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea…
- [Joshua 19:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/19/35) — And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
- [1 Samuel 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/18) — And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and o…
- [2 Samuel 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/7) — And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah,…
- [2 Kings 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/19) — And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every goo…
- [2 Kings 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/12) — And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong…
- [2 Kings 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/2) — Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city…
- [2 Kings 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/9) — And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all…
- [2 Kings 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/8) — He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
- [2 Chronicles 17:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/17/19) — These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
- [Psalms 89:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/40) — Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
- [Psalms 108:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/108/10) — Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
- [Isaiah 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/3) — The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the chil…
- [Isaiah 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/12) — And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
- [Isaiah 34:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/13) — And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a co…
- [Jeremiah 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/18) — For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of J…
- [Jeremiah 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/5) — Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves…
- [Jeremiah 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/17) — And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine her…
- [Jeremiah 6:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/27) — I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
- [Jeremiah 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/14) — Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath…
- [Jeremiah 34:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/34/7) — When the king of Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against…
- [Jeremiah 48:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/18) — Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he sh…
- [Lamentations 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/2) — The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daug…
- [Lamentations 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/5) — The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath i…
- [Daniel 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/15) — So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, n…
- [Daniel 11:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/24) — He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his father…
- [Daniel 11:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/39) — Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to…
- [Hosea 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/14) — Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle…
- [Amos 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/9) — That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
- [Micah 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/11) — And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
- [Nahum 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/12) — All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
- [Nahum 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/14) — Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
- [Habakkuk 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/10) — And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dus…