צְרִיחַ
tseriach · stronghold, inner chamber
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6877 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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tseriach (צְרִיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stronghold, inner chamber”.
Stronghold, a strong and closed place; perhaps an underground chamber. A rare word whose sense is not entirely certain.
How to say it
tse·ri·ach
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
- Enclosed, secure refuge; perhaps an underground chamber.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fortress ×3
- strongholds ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 9:46
All the lords of the tower of Shechem heard it, and they went into the fortress of the house of El-berith.
- Judges 9:49
So all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech; they put them against the fortress and set the fortress on fire over them, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
- 1 Samuel 13:6
The men of Israel saw that they were in distress, for the people were hard pressed, and the people hid in the caves, in the thickets, in the rocks, in the strongholds, and in the cisterns.
And 1 more times.