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Word Summary
ochyrōma: a stronghold, fortress
Original Word: ὀχύρωμα
Transliteration: ochyrōma
Phonetic Spelling: (okh-oo'-ro-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a stronghold, fortress
Meaning: a stronghold, fortress
Strong's Concordance
stronghold.

From a remote derivative of echo (meaning to fortify, through the idea of holding safely); a castle (figuratively, argument) -- stronghold.

see GREEK echo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3794: ὀχύρωμα

ὀχύρωμα, ὀχυρώματος, τό (ὀχυρόω (to make strong, to fortify));

1. properly, a castle, stronghold, fortress, fastness, the Sept. for מִבְצָר, etc.; very often in 1 and 2 Macc.; Xenophon, Hellen. 3, 2, 3.

2. tropically, anything on which one relies: καθεῖλε τό ὀχύρωμα, ἐφ' ᾧ ἐπεποίθεισαν, Proverbs 21:22; ὀχύρωμα ὁσίου φόβος κυρίου, Proverbs 10:29; in 2 Corinthians 10:4 of the arguments and reasonings by which a disputant endeavors to fortify his opinion and defend it against his opponent.



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