6877 - tseriach

Strong's Concordance

Original word: צְרִ֫יחַ
Transliteration: tseriach
Definition (short): chamber
Definition (full): perhaps excavation, underground chamber

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: perhaps excavation, underground chamber
NASB Translation: cellars (1), inner chamber (3).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From tsarach in the sense of clearness of vision; a citadel -- high place, hold.

see HEBREW tsarach

KJV: And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
NASB: When all the leaders of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
KJV: And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
NASB: All the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
KJV: When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
NASB: When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in cliffs, in cellars, and in pits.