H759 - אַרְמוֹן (ʼarmôwn)

H759 אַרְמוֹן (ʼarmôwn) ar-mone'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

citadel: palace

Strong's Definition

a citadel (from its height)

Derivation: from an unused root (meaning to be elevated);

KJV Usage: castle, palace. Compare H2038 (הַרְמוֹן).

TWOT Reference: 164a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) citadel, palace, fortress

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G296 G2310 G3624 G4172

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

: palace citadel, palace, fortress Also means: ar.mon (אַרְמוֹן ": fortress" H0759H)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אַרְמוֹן armôn BDB Definition: 1) citadel, palace, fortress Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root (meaning to be elevated) Same Word by TWOT Number: 164a Total KJV Occurrences: 32

Bible Occurrences (31)

16:18

15:25

36:19

48:3 48:13 122:7

18:19

23:13 25:2 32:14 34:13

6:5 9:21 17:27 30:18 49:27

2:5 2:7

8:14

1:4 1:7 1:10 1:12 1:14 2:2 2:5 3:9 3:10 3:11 6:8

5:5

1 Kings 16:18

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered... the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down... upon himself. So he died

2 Kings 15:25

Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob,... Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the king’s palace in Samaria, [Pekah] struck down and killed [Pekahiah] and reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 36:19

Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down... all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

Proverbs 18:19

An offended brother [is harder to win] than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Chaldeans a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

Isaiah 25:2

Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers [is] a city [no more]; it will never... be rebuilt.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever... — the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks —

Isaiah 34:13

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.