Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
perimeter
Usage: 1) border, fastness, rim 1a) border, rim 1b) fastness
Micgereth means “something enclosing” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4526 — sakkos (“sackcloth”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4526 מִסגֶּרֶת (micgereth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. micgereth (mis-gheh'-reth) n-f. 1. something enclosing, i.e. a margin (of a region, of a panel) 2. (concretely) a stronghold It has 14 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include borders, border, and close. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
micgereth (mis-gheh'-reth) n-f. 1. something enclosing, i.e. a margin (of a region, of a panel) 2. (concretely) a stronghold [from H5462] KJV: border, close place, hole. Root(s): H5462
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4526. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
perimeter
Usage: 1) border, fastness, rim 1a) border, rim 1b) fastness
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render micgereth, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4526.
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4526, grouped by book.
Micgereth (Strong's H4526) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "something enclosing". micgereth (mis-gheh'-reth) n-f. 1. something enclosing, i.e. a margin (of a region, of a panel) 2. (concretely) a stronghold
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H4526 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4526 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as borders, border, and close. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.