אַרְמוֹן

1 Kings 16:18 אַרְמ֣וֹן [the] fortress of

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 בְּאַרְמ֤וֹן in [the] fortress of

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 אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ palaces its

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.

Here: "Her citadels." The tall, fortified stone residences of the king and the elite, the strongholds inside the city. Placing this object first in the clause puts weight on it. It echoes the prophets' threat that fire would devour "the citadels of Jerusalem" (Amos 2:5; Jer 17:27).

Psalm 48:3 בְּאַרְמְנוֹתֶ֗יהָ [is] in fortresses its

God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

Here: 'In her citadels': the massive fortified buildings of Jerusalem (the city is 'her', feminine, as cities are in Hebrew). These are the strongest built defences a city had, the places people fell back to under siege. The phrase sets the scene: right inside the city's own strongholds, God showed who the real stronghold is.

Psalm 48:13 אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֑יהָ fortresses its

consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

Psalm 122:7 בְּאַרְמְנוֹתָֽיִךְ׃ in fortresses your

May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”

Proverbs 18:19 אַרְמֽוֹן׃ a fortress

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

Here: The fortified keep or royal stronghold inside a city, its last line of defence (1 Kgs 16:18; Amos 1–2). The picture tightens from the outer city wall in line 1 to the barred inner citadel in line 2.

Isaiah 23:13 אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ palaces its

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 אַרְמ֤וֹן a fortress of

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 אַרְמ֣וֹן [the] palace

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 אַרְמְנֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ fortresses its

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

Jeremiah 6:5 אַרְמְנוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ ס fortresses its

Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

Jeremiah 9:21 בְּאַרְמְנוֹתֵ֑ינוּ in fortresses our

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Here: 'Into our strongholds'. These were the fortified great houses of the king and the elite, the strongest and safest buildings in the city. Even they are breached.

Jeremiah 17:27 אַרְמְנ֥וֹת [the] fortresses of

But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

Here: The tall, fortified stone buildings of the king and the ruling elite, the city's strongest and grandest structures. If they burn, everything burns.

Jeremiah 30:18 וְאַרְמ֖וֹן and a fortress

This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.

Here: 'And a citadel': the fortified main building of a city, where the ruler or the city's elite lived. Elsewhere in Jeremiah these citadels are exactly what fire devours (Jer 17:27).

Jeremiah 49:27 אַרְמְנ֥וֹת [the] fortresses of

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

Lamentations 2:5 אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ palaces its

The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

Here: The fortified stone residences of the ruling class: keeps, great houses, the palace complex. 'Her' (feminine) points to the city / Daughter Zion pictured as a woman.

Lamentations 2:7 אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֑יהָ palaces its

The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Here: 'Her citadels': the strongly built, fortified great houses and keeps of Jerusalem (the 'her' is Daughter Zion, the city pictured as a woman). The point is military strength, not luxury.

Hosea 8:14 אַרְמְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃ ס fortresses his

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

Here: An ʾarmôn is the fortified keep, the strongest and highest building of a city, where the ruling class lived and wealth was stored. 'Her' is feminine and probably means each city, or Judah thought of as a land. The phrase repeats word for word the refrain in Amos's oracles: 'it shall devour her citadels.'

Amos 1:4 אַרְמְנ֥וֹת [the] fortresses of

So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.

Here: The tall fortified buildings of the elite: royal keeps and strongholds that were both residences and defences. Here they are the strongholds of the ruling house. It is a word Amos likes (3:9–11; 6:8), and he ties it to the wealth stored up by those in power.

Amos 1:7 אַרְמְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃ fortresses its

So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.

Amos 1:10 אַרְמְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃ פ fortresses its

So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”

Here: 'Her citadels'. These were the tall, fortified stone buildings of the ruling elite: part residence, part stronghold, part storehouse. The fire goes past the outer wall and reaches the strongholds where power and wealth were concentrated.

Amos 1:12 אַרְמְנ֥וֹת [the] fortresses of

So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

Here: The plural 'fortified towers/citadels of', the massive stone buildings where a city's ruling class lived and from which it defended itself. They were symbols of military and economic power, and the fire aims at them.

Amos 1:14 אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֑יהָ fortresses its

So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.

Here: The fortified towers and strong-houses of the ruling class, where power, wealth and plunder were kept. 'Her' is the city of Rabbah, spoken of as a woman.

Amos 2:2 אַרְמְנ֣וֹת [the] fortresses of

So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.

Amos 2:5 אַרְמְנ֥וֹת [the] fortresses of

So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

Amos 3:9 אַרְמְנ֣וֹת אַרְמְנ֖וֹת [the] fortresses

Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”

Here: The fortified stone houses of the ruling class. The word is chosen on purpose: the people in Ashdod's citadels are called to look at what goes on in Samaria's citadels (v.10).

Amos 3:10 בְּאַרְמְנֽוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ פ in fortresses their

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

Amos 3:11 אַרְמְנוֹתָֽיִךְ׃ fortresses your

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

Here: 'Your citadels'. These were the fortified, tower-like mansions of the ruling class. The word is repeated from vv. 9 and 10. The buildings where stolen goods were hoarded become the buildings that are looted.

Amos 6:8 וְאַרְמְנֹתָ֖יו and fortresses his

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

Here: The tall fortified mansions and keeps of the ruling elite: both luxury homes and strongholds. They are the concrete form that 'Jacob's pride' took.

Micah 5:5 בְּאַרְמְנֹתֵ֔ינוּ on fortresses our

And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.

Here: The fortified residences and keeps of a city, the last strong points and the seats of its leading families. The Greek translation read 'our soil' here (see textual notes).