Strong H2918טִירָה
encampment
- Transliteration
- ţîyrâh
- Pronunciation
- tee-raw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Feminine of (an equivalent to) H2905; a wall; hence a fortress or a hamlet: - (goodly) {castle} {habitation} {palace} row.
Detailed definition
1) encampment, battlement
1a) encampment, tent camp
1b) walled dwelling places, battlement (metaph.)
1c) row (of stones)
1a) encampment, tent camp
1b) walled dwelling places, battlement (metaph.)
1c) row (of stones)
In the Bible
Strong H2918 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- castle3
- palace2
- let1
- row1
First verses
- Genesis 25:16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
- Numbers 31:10And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
- 1 Chronicles 6:54Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
- Psalms 69:25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
- Song of Songs 8:9If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
- Ezekiel 25:4Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
- Ezekiel 46:23And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.