1) place or means of safety, protection, refuge, stronghold 1a) place of safety, fastness, harbour, stronghold 1b) refuge (of God) (fig.) 1c) human protection (fig.)
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H4581 — מָעוֹז
ma.oz · security · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Judges 6:26 · הַמָּע֛וֹזand build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”2 Samuel 22:33 · מָעוּזִּ֖יGod is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.Nehemiah 8:10 · מָֽעֻזְּכֶֽם׃Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”Psalm 27:1 · מָֽעוֹז־By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?Psalm 28:8 · וּמָ֘ע֤וֹזYahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.Psalm 31:2 · מָ֭עוֹזBow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.Psalm 31:4 · מָֽעוּזִּֽי׃Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.Psalm 37:39 · מָֽ֝עוּזָּ֗םBut the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.Psalm 43:2 · מָֽעוּזִּי֮For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?Psalm 52:7 · מָֽע֫וּזּ֥וֹ“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”Psalm 60:7 · מָע֣וֹזGilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.Psalm 108:8 · מָע֣וֹזGilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.Proverbs 10:29 · מָע֣וֹזThe way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.Isaiah 17:9 · מָעֻזּ֗וֹIn that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.Isaiah 17:10 · מָעֻזֵּ֖ךְFor you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.Isaiah 23:4 · מָע֥וֹזBe ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”Isaiah 23:11 · מָעֻזְנֶֽיהָ׃He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.Isaiah 23:14 · מָעֻזְּכֶֽן׃ סHowl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!Isaiah 25:4 · מָע֥וֹז · מָע֥וֹזFor you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.Isaiah 27:5 · בְּמָעוּזִּ֔יOr else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”Isaiah 30:2 · בְּמָע֣וֹזwho set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!Isaiah 30:3 · מָע֥וֹזTherefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.Jeremiah 16:19 · וּמָעֻזִּ֛יYahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.Daniel 11:1 · וּלְמָע֖וֹז“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.Daniel 11:7 · בְּמָעוֹז֙But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail.Daniel 11:10 · מָעֻזּֽוֹ׃His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.Daniel 11:19 · לְמָעוּזֵּ֖יThen he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.Daniel 11:31 · הַמָּעוֹז֙Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.Daniel 11:38 · מָֽעֻזִּ֔יםBut in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers didn’t know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.Daniel 11:39 · מָֽעֻזִּים֙He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god: whoever acknowledges him he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price.Nahum 1:7 · לְמָע֖וֹזYahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.Nahum 3:11 · מָע֖וֹזYou also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.