Strong's G3794 ὀχύρωμα (ochyroma)

And his master took Joseph, and cast him into the prison, into the place where the king’s prisoners are kept, there in the prison.

But remember me of thyself, when it shall be well with thee, and thou shalt deal mercifully with me, and thou shalt make mention of me to Pharaoh, and thou shalt bring me forth out of this dungeon.

And Pharaoh having sent, called Joseph; and they brought him out from the prison, and shaved him, and changed his dress, and he came to Pharaoh.

And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,

And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know all the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: thou wilt utterly destroy their strongholds with fire, and thou wilt slay their choice men with the sword, and thou wilt dash their infants against the ground, and their women with child thou wilt rip up.

me, And has raised his bulwark against me.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast made his strongholds a terror.

But ruin comes to them that work wickedness.

He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; But they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. Shall leave dishonor in his own strongholds.

But the roots of the godly are firmly set.

A wise man assaults strong cities, And demolishes the fortress in which the ungodly trusted.

And the eft, which supports itself by its hands, and is easily taken, dwells in the fortresses of kings.

and that they had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city.

Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your stronghold is destroyed.

And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a stronghold: after many generations they shall be visited.

And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court for ostriches.

Behold, he shall look upon her as an eagle, and spread forth his wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Since thou hast trusted in thy stronghold, therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.

Come down from thy glory, and sit down in a damp place: Dibon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against thee one to ravage thy stronghold.

Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds have been taken together.

In the day of his wrath The Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, And not spared: He has brought down in his fury All the beautiful things of Jacob; He has brought down to the ground The strongholds of the daughter of Judah: He has profaned her king and her princes.

The Lord is become as an enemy: He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, He has overwhelmed her palaces: He has destroyed his strongholds, And has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones To the daughter of Judah.

And he shall do thus in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.

And he shall have the mastery over the secret treasures of gold and silver, and over all the desirable possessions of Egypt, and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in their strongholds.

who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.

and I will utterly destroy the cities of thy land, and demolish all thy strongholds:

All thy strongholds are as fig trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strongholds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.

And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every stronghold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.

And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

Ye shall dwell in strongholds, ye prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of thy captivity I will recompense thee double.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

and made many wars, and won many strongholds, and slew the kings of the earth,

And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Beth-zur to preserve it; that the people might have a defense against Idumea.

Then the heathen that were at Gilead assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them: but they fled to the fortress of Dathema,

and they are preparing to come and take the fortress where unto we are fled, Timothy being captain of their host.

and that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the country of Gilead, and that against tomorrow they had appointed to bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day.

From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the fortress.

And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them.

Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.

Also the king and the princes made an oath unto them: whereupon they went out of the stronghold.

Then the king entered into Mount Zion: but when he saw the strength of the place, he broke his oath that he had made, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.

and that they, having knowledge thereof, sent against them a certain captain, and fighting with them slew many of them, and carried away captives their wives and their children, and spoiled them, and took possession of their lands, and pulled down their strongholds, and brought them to be their servants unto this day.

Afterward returned Bacchides to Jerusalem, and repaired the strong cities in Judea; the fort in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Beth-horon, and Bethel, and Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, these did he strengthen with high walls, with gates, and with bars.

Then the strangers, that were in the fortresses which Bacchides had built, fled away;

And of them some shall be placed in the king’s strongholds, of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be of themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king hath commanded in the land of Judea.

King Ptolemy also died the third day after, and they that were in the strongholds were slain one of another.

In the mean time Jonathan sent unto King Demetrius, that he would cast those of the tower out of Jerusalem, and those also in the fortresses: for they fought against Israel.

Simon also went forth, and passed through the country unto Ascalon, and the holds there adjoining, from whence he turned aside to Joppa, and won it.

For he had heard that they would deliver the hold unto them that took Demetrius’ part: wherefore he set a garrison there to keep it.

After this came Jonathan home again, and calling the elders of the people together, he consulted with them about building strongholds in Judea,

Therefore send them now home again, and choose a few men to wait on thee, and come thou with me to Ptolemais, for I will give it thee, and the rest of the strongholds and forces, and all that have any charge: as for me, I will return and depart: for this is the cause of my coming.

Then Simon built up the strongholds in Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars, and laid up victuals therein.

And whatsoever covenants we have made with you shall stand; and the strongholds, which ye have built, shall be your own.

moreover that he should be their captain, and should take charge of the sanctuary, to set them over their works, and over the country, and over the armor, and over the fortresses, that, I say, he should take charge of the sanctuary;

And as concerning Jerusalem and the sanctuary, let them be free; and all the armor that thou hast made, and fortresses that thou hast built, and keepest in thy hands, let them remain unto thee.

Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant got them to the stronghold.

Moreover of those that were with Timothy and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.

and therewithal the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.

Then they that were with Maccabeus made supplication, and besought God that he would be their helper; and so they ran with violence upon the strongholds of the Idumeans,

And having good success with his weapons in all things he took in hand, he slew in the two holds more than twenty thousand.

As for Timothy himself, he fled into a very strong hold, called Gazara, where Chaereas was governor.

Now when they that were with Maccabeus heard that he besieged the holds, they and all the people with lamentation and tears besought the Lord that he would send a good angel to deliver Israel.

Howbeit Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabeus’ captains, went forth, and slew those that Timothy had left in the fortress, above ten thousand men.

Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country?