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# בִּצָּרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1225

**stronghold** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

stronghold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1225/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּצָּרוֹן: stronghold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1225/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] stronghold, לְב׳ Zc 9:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stronghold (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 9:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.12/#tree)

שׁ֚וּבוּ לְבִצָּר֔וֹן אֲסִירֵ֖י הַתִּקְוָ֑ה גַּם־הַיּ֕וֹם מַגִּ֥יד מִשְׁנֶ֖ה אָשִׁ֥יב לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* return to.\[the\] stronghold O.prisoners of.(the) hope also this day \[I.am\].declaring double I.will.restore to you

*JPS 1917:* Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1225/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).