H2918: טִירָה
ṭîyrâh · pronounced tee-raw' · “encampment”
Definition
a wall; hence, a fortress or a hamlet
KJV translates it as: (goodly) castle, habitation, palace, row.
Word origin: feminine of (an equivalent to) H2905 (טוּר);
Extended definition
1a) encampment, tent camp
1b) walled dwelling places, battlement (metaph.)
1c) row (of stones)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2918 is translated
- their ×5
- a battlement of ×1
- rows of stones ×1
Bible verses with H2918 (ṭîyrâh)
Ṭîyrâh appears in 7 verses.
- Genesis 25:16
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
- Numbers 31:10
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
- 1 Chronicles 6:54
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
- Psalms 69:25
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
- Song of Solomon 8:9
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
- Ezekiel 25:4
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
- Ezekiel 46:23
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.