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) (De 3:5;9:1;28:52, etc.); mibhtsar, "fenced city," is a fortified place (Nu 32:17,36;Jos 10:20;19:35, etc.); matsor, "fenced cities," means "bulwark," "citadel" (2Ch 8:5); metsurah, "fortification" (2Ch 11:23;12:4;14:6;21:3); for "fenced" the American Standard Revised Version substitutes "fortified" in all these instances; inDa 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 19:8the 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" (2Sa 23:7, the Revised Version (British and American) "armed," margin "Hebrew filled").
ERV has "fence" for "wall" (Nu 22:24;Isa 5:5;Ho 2:6; the American Standard Revised Version retains "wall"), for "hedge" (Ec 10:8;Eze 13:5;22:30; the American Standard Revised Version "wall"); "fenced" for "walled" (Nu 13:28;De 1:28; the American Standard Revised Version "fortified"); compare for "strong"Jos 19:29;Ne 9:25;Ps 108:10(marginJos 19:29, "the city of Mibzar-zor, that is, the fortress of Tyre," the English Revised Version,"fenced"), for "hedged" (La 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"); inJer 49:3, the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version have "fences."
See alsoHEDGE.
W. L. Walker