# H4013 מִבְצָר

מִבְצָר (mibtsâr), Strong’s H4013: a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender KJV: (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).. Occurs 37 times.

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*mibtsâr* — a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender

KJV: (de-, most) fenced, fortress, (most) strong (hold).

Derived from [בָּצַר bâtsar](https://besorah.bible/word/H1219) (to gather grapes)

Occurs 37 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מִבְצָר n.m. fortification

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 13:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/13?v=19) — and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in…
- [Numbers 32:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=17) — but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place…
- [Numbers 32:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=36) — Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.
- [Joshua 10:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=20) — When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed…
- [Joshua 19:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=29) — The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the…
- [Joshua 19:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=35) — The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
- [1 Samuel 6:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=18) — and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of…
- [2 Samuel 24:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/24?v=7) — and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and they went out to…
- [2 Kings 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/3?v=19) — You shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of…
- [2 Kings 8:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/8?v=12) — Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of…