armon · citadel, fortress

What it means

armon (אַרְמוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “citadel, fortress”.

Citadel, fortified palace: the high and strongest part of a city or of the king's house.

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 strong, tall building within a city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• citadels ×16
• palaces ×10
• citadel ×3
• palace ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×5
• Lamentations×2
• Hosea×1
• Amos×12
• Micah×1

• 1 Kings 16:18

  And it happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,

• 2 Kings 15:25

  Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the citadel of the house of the king, with Argob and with Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites; and he put him to death and reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  They burned the house of Elohim and tore down the wall of Jerusalem; and all its palaces they burned with fire, and all its precious objects they destroyed.

• Psalms 48:3

  Elohim, in her citadels, has made himself known as a high refuge.

• Psalms 48:13

  set your heart on her rampart; go through her citadels, so that you may recount it to the generation to come.

• Psalms 122:7

  may there be peace within your wall, tranquility within your palaces.

• Proverbs 18:19

  A brother offended is harder to win than a city of strength, and strife is like the bar of a citadel.

• Isaiah 23:13

  Look, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; Assyria founded it for desert creatures; they raised their siege towers, they stripped its palaces; he made it a ruin.

• Isaiah 25:2

  For you have made the city into a heap, the fortified town into a ruin, the palace of strangers no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

• Isaiah 32:14

  For the palace is forsaken, the tumult of the city deserted; the Ophel and the watchtower have become caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

• Isaiah 34:13

  And brambles will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be an abode of jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

• Jeremiah 6:5

  “Arise, and let us go up by night and destroy her palaces.”

• Jeremiah 9:21

  For death has come up through our windows; it has entered our palaces, to cut off the child from the street, the young men from the squares.

• Jeremiah 17:27

  But if you do not listen to me, to keep holy the day of the Sabbath, and not to carry a burden and come in through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in her gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.’”

• Jeremiah 30:18

  Thus says YHWH: Look, I am bringing back the captivity of the tents of Jacob, and on his dwellings I will have compassion; and the city will be built on its mound of ruins, and the palace on its rightful place will stand.

• Jeremiah 49:27

  And I will kindle fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

• Lamentations 2:5

  Adonai has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all her palaces; he has destroyed its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and moaning.

• Lamentations 2:7

  Adonai has rejected his altar; he has repudiated his sanctuary; he has handed over into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have raised their voice in the house of YHWH as on a day of appointed feast.

• Hosea 8:14

  And Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities, and it will devour her citadels.

• Amos 1:4

  And I will send fire on the house of Hazael, and it will devour the citadels of Ben-hadad.

• Amos 1:7

  And I will send fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour her citadels.

• Amos 1:10

  And I will send fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour her citadels.

• Amos 1:12

  And I will send fire on Teman, and it will devour the citadels of Bozrah.

• Amos 1:14

  And I will kindle fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour her citadels, with a war cry on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

• Amos 2:2

  And I will send fire on Moab, and it will devour the citadels of Kerioth; and Moab will die amid the uproar, with a war cry, with the sound of the horn.

• Amos 2:5

  And I will send fire on Judah, and it will devour the citadels of Jerusalem.

• Amos 3:9

  Proclaim over the citadels in Ashdod, and over the citadels in the land of Egypt, and say, “Gather on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults in her midst, and the oppressed within her.”

• Amos 3:10

  And they do not know how to do what is right, declares YHWH, those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.

• Amos 3:11

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: An enemy, and he will be around the land; and he will bring down your strength from you, and your citadels will be plundered.

• Amos 6:8

  Adonai YHWH has sworn by his soul, declares YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot: I abhor the pride of Jacob, and his citadels I hate; and I will hand over the city and all that fills it.

• Micah 5:5

  And this one will be peace. When Assyria comes into our land and when he treads in our citadels, we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men.

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