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# מְצָד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4679

**fastness** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fastness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4679/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְצָד²: n.f. fastness, stronghold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4679/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Je 48:41 fastness, stronghold (prop. hunting-place?);—abs. מְצָד 1 Ch 11:7; 12:6, מְצַד 12:8; pl. abs. מְצָדוֹת 1 S 23:14 +, cstr. id. v 29 (Gi, 24:1 van d. H. Baer), Is 33:16;— mountain-fastness Ju 6:2 1 S 23:14, 19, 19 (v. supr.), Ez 33:27; 1 Ch 12:8(9), 16(17); מְצָדוֹת סְלָעִים Is 33:16. more gen., stronghold Je 48:41; 51:30; Ez 19:9 (Baer Gi van d. H. מְצֹדוֹת id. \[ii. מְצוֹדָה\] Ew Hi-Sm Da al.; nets \[i. מְצוֹדָה\] Krae; del. Co Oort Toy); citadel of Jerusalem 1 Ch 11:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: strongholds (6); stronghold (3); \[will be\] strongholds (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 24:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.1/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַל דָּוִ֖ד מִשָּׁ֑ם וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בִּמְצָד֥וֹת עֵֽינ־גֶּֽדִיעֵֽינ־גֶּֽדִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up David from there and he.dwelt in the.strongholds of En.Gedi

*JPS 1917:* And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.

[1 Chronicles 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.7/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב דָּוִ֖יד בַּמְצָ֑ד עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרְאוּ־ל֖וֹ עִ֥יר דָּוִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* and he.dwelt David in the stronghold therefore people.called (to) it the.city of.David

*JPS 1917:* And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4679.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4679/): 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).