Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H6877: צְרִיחַ

tsᵉrîyach · pronounced tser-ee'-akh · “stronghold”

Definition

a citadel

KJV translates it as: high place, hold.

Word origin: from H6873 (צָרַח) in the sense of clearness of vision;

Extended definition

1) excavation, underground chamber, cellar, underground room
1a) meaning uncertain

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H6877 is translated

  • underground chamber ×2
  • the underground chamber of ×1
  • underground chambers ×1

Bible verses with H6877 (tsᵉrîyach)

Tsᵉrîyach appears in 3 verses.

  • Judges 9:46

    And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.

  • Judges 9:49

    And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

  • 1 Samuel 13:6

    When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.