misgeret · rim, frame; stronghold

What it means

misgeret (מִסְגֶּרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rim, frame; stronghold”.

Rim or frame around something. In other passages, an enclosed place, a stronghold.

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. The rim or frame around a piece, like that of the table or of the bronze stands.
2. A closed, secure place where someone hides, a fortified refuge.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• panels ×8
• rim ×6
• strongholds ×2
• out of their enclosures ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×7
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Micah×1

• Exodus 25:25

  You shall make for it a rim a handbreadth wide all around, and you shall make a molding of gold for its rim all around.

• Exodus 25:27

  Close to the rim the rings shall be, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

• Exodus 37:12

  And he made for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and made a molding of gold for its rim all around.

• Exodus 37:14

  Close to the rim were the rings, holders for the poles to carry the table.

• 2 Samuel 22:46

  Foreigners wither, and they come out girded from their strongholds.

• 1 Kings 7:28

  And this was the work of the base: they had panels, and panels were between the crossbars.

• 1 Kings 7:29

  And on the panels that were between the crossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the crossbars likewise; above and below the lions and the oxen were wreaths, hanging work.

• 1 Kings 7:31

  And its mouth inside the capital and upward was a cubit; and its mouth was round, the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were carvings; and their panels were square, not round.

• 1 Kings 7:32

  And the four wheels were below the panels, and the axles of the wheels were in the base; and the height of the one wheel was a cubit and a half.

• 1 Kings 7:35

  And on the top of the base was a piece half a cubit in height, round all around; and on the top of the base its handles and its panels were of it.

• 1 Kings 7:36

  And he engraved on the plates of its handles and on its panels cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, and wreaths all around.

• 2 Kings 16:17

  King Ahaz cut off the panels of the stands, and removed from them the basin; and the Sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

• Psalms 18:45

  Foreigners wither, and come out trembling from their strongholds.

• Micah 7:17

  They will lick dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they will come trembling out of their enclosures; before YHWH our Elohim they will tremble in dread, and they will be afraid of you.

And 3 more times.