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title: בִּצָּרוֹן — stronghold · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּצָּרוֹן (1225), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: stronghold. BDB 1906: stronghold. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּצָּרוֹן

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«בִּצָּרוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stronghold** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1225 · **BDB:** בִּצָּרוֹן

### Glosses

stronghold (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stronghold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1225/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

stronghold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1225/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] stronghold, לְב׳ Zc 9:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּצָּרוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1225/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zechariah 9:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.12/)

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שׁ֚וּבוּ לְבִצָּר֔וֹן אֲסִירֵ֖י הַתִּקְוָ֑ה גַּם־הַיּ֕וֹם מַגִּ֥יד מִשְׁנֶ֖ה אָשִׁ֥יב לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* return to.\[the\] stronghold O.prisoners of.(the) hope also this day \[I.am\].declaring double I.will.restore to you

*JPS 1917:* Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

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