Garrison
Garrison
denoted by four or five Heb. words from the root , natsab’, to stand firm or erect (i.q. ),
1. matstsab’ (fem. , matstsabah’, 1Sa 14:12), a station, i.e., lit. a standing-place (e.g. where the priests stood in Jordan, “place,” Jos 4:3; Jos 4:9); hence a military or fortified post (e.g. the Philistine camp, 1Sa 13:23; 1Sa 14:1; 1Sa 14:4; 1Sa 14:6; 1Sa 14:11-12; 1Sa 14:15; 2Sa 23:11-14); metaph. an office or public “station” (Isa 22:19).
2. , mutstsab’, a cordon of troops (“mount,” Isa 29:3; perhaps also “pillar,” Jdg 9:6).
3. , netsib’, properly a praefect or superintendent (“officer,” 1Ki 4:19; 2Ch 8:10); hence a military post (1Sa 10:5; 1Sa 13:3-4; 2Sa 8:6; 2Sa 8:14; 1Ch 11:16; 1Ch 18:13; 2Ch 17:2); also a monumental “pilla” (q.v.) or cippus (e.g., a statue of salt, Gen 19:26; a sense in which some take the word also in 1Sa 10:5; 1Sa 13:3, like the stelae erected by Sesostris in conquered countries in token of subjugation, Herod. 2:102, 106).
4. An improper rendering, Eze 26:11, of , smatstsebah’, which always designates a standing object, either an architact-tsal or monumental column (usually rendered “pillar;” in the passage of Ezekiel perhaps referring to those of the Tyrian temples; comp. Herod. 2:14), or an idolatrous “image” (q.v.). SEE FORTIFICATION.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Garrison
(1.) Heb. matstsab, a station; a place where one stands (1 Sam. 14:12); a military or fortified post (1 Sam. 13:23; 14:1, 4, 6, etc.).
(2.) Heb. netsib, a prefect, superintendent; hence a military post (1 Sam. 10:5; 13:3, 4; 2 Sam. 8:6). This word has also been explained to denote a pillar set up to mark the Philistine conquest, or an officer appointed to collect taxes; but the idea of a military post See ms to be the correct one.
(3.) Heb. matstsebah, properly a monumental column; improperly rendered pl. “garrisons” in Ezek. 26:11; correctly in Revised Version “pillars,” marg. “obelisks,” probably an idolatrous image.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Garrison
Put in military posts to keep possession of a conquered country, as the Philistines held the land of Israel at the beginning of Saul’s reign (1Sa 10:5; 1Sa 13:3); David, Syria (2Sa 8:6; 2Sa 8:14). In Eze 26:11, “thy strong garrisons” (matzeboth uzzeek) literally, “the statues of thy strength”, i.e. the forts. Or rather (Maurer), the obelisks in honor of the tutelary gods of Tyre (as Melecarte, the Tyrian Hercules whose temple stood in Old Tyre) shall go down to the ground before Nebuchadnezzar, the conqueror, just as he treated Egypt’s idol statues (Jer 43:11).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Garrison
gari-s’n. See WAR.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Garrison
A place strengthened temporarily for war, or permanently for the protection of the country. The same name is applied to the soldiers who guarded such places. 1Sa 13:3-4; 1Sa 13:23; 1Sa 14:1-15; 1Ch 11:16; 1Ch 18:13; 2Ch 17:2; 2Co 11:32.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Garrison
A military camp.
1Sa 13:3; 1Sa 14:1; 2Sa 8:6; 2Sa 8:14; 2Sa 23:14
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Garrison
Garrison. The Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version are derivatives from the root natsab, to “place, erect”, which may be applied to a variety of objects.
1. Mattsab and mattsabah undoubtedly mean a “garrison” or fortified post. 1Sa 13:23; 1Sa 14:14; 1 Samuel 15; 2Sa 23:14.
2. Netsib is also used for a “garrison” in 1Ch 11:16, but elsewhere for a “column” erected in an enemy’s country as a token of conquest. 1Sa 13:3.
3. The same word elsewhere means “officers” placed over a vanquished people. 2Sa 8:6; 2Sa 8:14; 1Ch 18:13; 2Ch 17:2.
4. Mattsebah in Eze 26:11 means a “pillar”.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Garrison
* For GARRISON see GUARD, B, No. 3