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Rampart (9 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts. Int. ...RAMPART.
ram'-part (Lamentations 2:8 Nahum 3:8). See FORTIFICATION. ...
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Dura (1 Occurrence)
... Others have believed that name to indicate a portion of the actual site of Babylon
within the great wall (duru) of the city-perhaps the rampart designated dur ...
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Bulwark (29 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A rampart; an earthen wall for fortification and protection; a bastion or
outwork. ... His faithfulness is your shield and rampart. (See NAS). ...
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Ramp (9 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 20:15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast
up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the ...
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Ramparts (7 Occurrences)
... destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, He hath
not withdrawn His hand from destroying; but He hath made the rampart and wall ...
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Trench (8 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork
with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to entrench. ...
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Mound (17 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown
up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing ...
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Moat (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle
or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch. ...
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Fort (8 Occurrences)
... (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only
by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades ...
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Fortified (79 Occurrences)
... In this connection it is to be noted that chomah, is Hebrew for "wall," Greek teichos;
chel or cheyl, is Hebrew for the "ditch," or "rampart," or "bastion" of ...
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Bible Concordance

Rampart (9 Occurrences)

Luke 19:43 Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,
(YLT)

2 Samuel 20:15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

1 Kings 21:23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
(WEB ASV)

Psalms 91:4 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
(WEB NIV)

Lamentations 2:8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 9:25 And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader 'is' seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times.
(YLT)

Nahum 3:8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
(Root in WEB NAS NIV)

Zechariah 9:3 Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
(See RSV)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A broad embankment of earth around a place as a defensive fortification; a bulwark. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.

2. (n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.

3. (v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

RAMPART

ram'-part (Lamentations 2:8 Nahum 3:8).

See FORTIFICATION.

Greek

5482. charax -- a pointed stake, a rampart
... a pointed stake, a rampart. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: charax
Phonetic Spelling: (khar'-ax) Short Definition: a mound for besieging ...
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4102. pistis -- faith, faithfulness
... J. Calvin). 1 Hab 2:1: " I will stand on my guard post And station myself
on the rampart; And I will keep watch to see (Heb ) " (). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2426. chel -- rampart, fortress
chel or chel. 2425b, 2426. chel or chel. 2427 . rampart, fortress. Transliteration:
chel or chel Phonetic Spelling: (khale) Short Definition: rampart. ...
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4694. metsurah -- siegeworks, rampart
... metsurah or metsurah. 4695 . siegeworks, rampart. Transliteration: metsurah or
metsurah Phonetic Spelling: (mets-oo-raw') Short Definition: fortified. ...
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1037. Beth Millo -- "house of earthwork," a place near Shechem ...
... house of Millo. Or Beyth Mil-loh {bayth mil-lo'}; from bayith and millow'; house
of (the) rampart; Beth-Millo, the name of two citadels -- house of Millo. ...
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4692. matsor -- siege enclosure, siege, entrenchment
... Origin from tsur Definition siege enclosure, siege, entrenchment NASB Word Usage
besieged (3), defense (1), fortified (1), fortress (1), rampart (1), siege (17 ...
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5550. solelah -- a mound
... bank, mount. Or cowllah {so-lel-aw'}; active participle feminine of calal, but used
passively; a military mound, ie Rampart of besiegers -- bank, mount. ...
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4407. Millo -- a place near Shechem, also a citadel in Jer.
... NASB Word Usage Millo (7). Millo. Or mil-loe (2 Kings 12:20) {mil-lo'}; from male';
a rampart (as filled in), ie The citadel -- Millo. See also Beyth Millow'. ...
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4570. magal -- an entrenchment, track
... Or feminine mapgalah {mah-gaw-law'}; from the same as agol; a track (literally or
figuratively); also a rampart (as circular) -- going, path, trench, way((-side ...
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Library

How the Emperor Severus Divided from the Rest by a Rampart that ...
... BOOK I CHAP. V. How the Emperor Severus divided from the rest by a rampart
that part of Britain which had been recovered. In the ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap v how the emperor.htm

How the Britons, Being Ravaged by the Scots and Picts, Sought ...
... the two bays or inlets of the sea of which we have spoken;^ to the end that where
the protection of the water was wanting, they might use the rampart to defend ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xii how the britons.htm

The Memphite Empire
... The Gulf of Suez and the mountainous rampart of Gebel Geneffeh in the south, and
the marshes of Pelusium on the north, protected almost completely the eastern ...
/.../chapter iithe memphite empire.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... tilled up the depths of the bay, and then, under the influence of the currents which
swept along its eastern coasts, accumulated behind that rampart of sand ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

Of the Prophecies of the Birth and Achievements of Christ.
... men to arms, and would give the signal of war not with clarion, but with rattle,
and point out the foe, not from His charger's back or from a rampart, but from ...
/.../tertullian/an answer to the jews/chapter ix of the prophecies of.htm

Tertullian, Having Shown his Defence to be Consistent with ...
... Put on the panoply of modesty; surround yourself with the stockade of bashfulness;
rear a rampart for your sex, which must neither allow your own eyes egress ...
/.../on the veiling of virgins/chapter xvi tertullian having shown his.htm

Thou Shalt not Commit Adultery.
... chastely himself and help his neighbor do the same, so that God by this commandment
wishes to hedge round about and protect [as with a rampart] every spouse ...
/.../luther/the large catechism/thou shalt not commit adultery.htm

The Holy Family in Bethlehem after the Departure of the Kings.
... This was not the path through the town-gate, but the one which led over a hill or
rampart to the Cave of the Nativity from the place where Mary had waited ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xiv the holy family in.htm

Prologue
... numerous, of recent editions. Behind such a rampart of printed matter he
is well defended against profane curiosity. It needs courage ...
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The Gradual Development of Cosmical Order Out of Chaos in the ...
... the same time unfurnished as yet with its other qualities); [6407] and "without
form," because it was still covered with waters, as if with the rampart of its ...
/.../tertullian/against hermogenes/chapter xxix the gradual development of.htm

Subtopics

Rampart

Related Terms

Dura (1 Occurrence)

Bulwark (29 Occurrences)

Ramp (9 Occurrences)

Ramparts (7 Occurrences)

Trench (8 Occurrences)

Mound (17 Occurrences)

Moat (2 Occurrences)

Fort (8 Occurrences)

Fortified (79 Occurrences)