מַצָּבָה

matsava · post, garrison

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4675 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

matsava (מַצָּבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “post, garrison”.

Guard post, a group of soldiers stationed in a place.

How to say it

ma·tsa·va

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

A body of soldiers stationed to guard a place, a garrison.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

as a garrison ×1
post ×1

Where it appears

1 Samuel 14:12
The men of the post answered Jonathan and the one who carried his weapons, and they said, “Come up to us, and we will make known to you something.” Jonathan said to the one who carried his weapons, “Come up after me, for YHWH has given them into the hand of Israel.”
Zechariah 9:8
And I will encamp at my house as a garrison, against the one who passes through and the one who returns; and no oppressor will pass over them again, for now I have seen with my eyes.