Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
2. (n.) A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
3. (a.) Conciseness of style.
4. (n.) The state of being fast or swift.
Strong's Hebrew
4679. metsad -- fastness, a stronghold... fastness, a stronghold. Transliteration: metsad or metsad or metsadah Phonetic
Spelling: (mets-ad') Short Definition: strongholds.
... /hebrew/4679.htm - 6k 4685d. metsodah -- fastness, a stronghold
... << 4685c, 4685d. metsodah. 4686 >>. fastness, a stronghold. Transliteration:
metsodah Short Definition: stronghold. Word Origin from ...
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4526. misgereth -- border, rim, fastness
... << 4525, 4526. misgereth. 4527 >>. border, rim, fastness. Transliteration: misgereth
Phonetic Spelling: (mis-gheh'-reth) Short Definition: borders. ...
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4686b. metsudah -- a fastness, stronghold
... << 4686a, 4686b. metsudah. 4687 >>. a fastness, stronghold. Transliteration:
metsudah Short Definition: stronghold. Word Origin from ...
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4685. matsowd -- siegeworks
... mets-o-daw'}; or mtsodah {mets-o-daw'}; from tsuwd; a net (for capturing animals
or fishes) -- also (by interchange for mtsad) a fastness or (beseiging) tower ...
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4692. matsor -- siege enclosure, siege, entrenchment
... something hemming in, ie (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege,
(figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness -- besieged, bulwark ...
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4686. matsuwd -- net, prey
... Or (feminine) mtsuwdah {mets-oo-daw'}; or mtsudah {mets-oo-daw'}; for matsowd; a
net, or (abstractly) capture; also a fastness; --castle, defense, fort(-ress ...
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