Tseriach צְרִיחַ
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| צְרִיחַ | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | tseriach |
| Strong's number | H6877 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | stronghold |
| Occurrences | 4 in 3 verses |
| Most frequent in | Judges (2) |
Tseriach (Hebrew צְרִיחַ, Strong's H6877) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “stronghold”. It occurs 4 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) excavation, underground chamber, cellar, underground room
1a) meaning uncertain
1a) meaning uncertain
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | hold (3), places (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | inner chamber (2), cellars (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Tseriach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- 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.On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-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.So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
1 Samuel
- 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.Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).