Strong H6877צְרִיחַ
excavation
- Transliteration
- tserîyach
- Pronunciation
- tser-ee'-akh
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H6873 in the sense of clearness of vision; a citadel: - high {place} hold.
Detailed definition
STEP sense: stronghold
Exact lexical definition: excavation
Part of speech: noun
BDB context: צְרִיחַ n.[m.] perh. excavation , underground chamber
In the Bible
Strong H6877 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- hold2
- place1
First verses
- Judges 9:46And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
- Judges 9:49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- 1 Samuel 13:6When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.