tira · encampment; wall

What it means

tira (טִירָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “encampment; wall”.

Encampment surrounded by a fence; also a wall or fortified place.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A camp where clans and their flocks live in tents.
2. A raised top on the wall, which shields the one defending.
3. A row of things placed one after another around.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• encampments ×4
• battlements ×1
• encampment ×1
• rows ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 25:16

  These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve chiefs according to their peoples.

• Numbers 31:10

  All their cities in their dwelling places and all their encampments they burned with fire.

• 1 Chronicles 6:54

  And these are their dwelling places according to their encampments within their territory. To the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathites, for theirs was the lot,

• Psalms 69:25

  Let their encampment be desolate; in their tents let there be no one who dwells.

• Song of Songs 8:9

  If she is a wall, we will build on her battlements of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with a board of cedar.

• Ezekiel 25:4

  therefore, look, I am giving you to the sons of the east as a possession, and they will set up their encampments in you and place their dwellings in you; they will eat your fruit, and they will drink your milk.

• Ezekiel 46:23

  And a row all around in them, around the four of them, and hearths made under the rows all around.