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FENCE

fens (batsar, mibhtsar): Commonly used in the King James Version in the description of fortified places, as the translation of batsar, "to cut off," "to separate," "to fortify" (and forms) (Dt 3:5; 9:1; 28:52, etc.); mibhtsar, "fenced city," is a fortified place (Nu 32:17,36; Josh 10:20; 19:35, etc.); matsor, "fenced cities," means "bulwark," "citadel" (2 Ch 8:5); metsurah, "fortification" (2 Ch 11:23; 12:4; 14:6; 21:3); for "fenced" the American Standard Revised Version substitutes "fortified" in all these instances; in Dan 11:15, mibhtsar is "a well-fortified city," margin "the fortified cities," the English Revised Version "well-fenced"; "fence" is also the translation of gadher, "a wall" or "fence" (Job 19:8 the American Standard Revised Version, "walled up" (gadhar); Ps 62:3); `azaq, "to loosen" (the ground) as with a mattock (Isa 5:2, where the King James Version has "fenced" it (the vineyard), the American Standard Revised Version "digged it," the English Revised Version "made a trench about it," it" margin "digged it" sukh, "to interweave" or "interlace" (Job 10:11, the Revised Version (British and American) "clothed"); male', "to be or become full" (2 Sam 23:7, the Revised Version (British and American) "armed," margin "Hebrew filled").
ERV has "fence" for "wall" (Nu 22:24; Isa 5:5; Hos 2:6; the American Standard Revised Version retains "wall"), for "hedge" (Eccl 10:8; Ezek 13:5; 22:30; the American Standard Revised Version "wall"); "fenced" for "walled" (Nu 13:28; Dt 1:28; the American Standard Revised Version "fortified"); compare for "strong" Josh 19:29; Neh 9:25; Ps 108:10 (margin Josh 19:29, "the city of Mibzar-zor, that is, the fortress of Tyre," the English Revised Version ,"fenced"), for "hedged" (Lam 3:7, American Revised Version, "walled"); compare for "defenced," the English Revised Version "fenced," the American Standard Revised Version "fortified" (Isa 36:1; 37:26, etc.); "fences" for "hedges" (Ps 80:12, the American Standard Revised Version "walls"); in Jer 49:3, the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version have "fences."
See also HEDGE.
W. L. Walker Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'fence'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.

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