אַרְמוֹן ʼarmôwn

Meaning

a citadel (from its height)

In the King James Version: castle, palace. Compare H2038 (הַרְמוֹן).

Derivation: from an unused root (meaning to be elevated);

Where it is used

• 1 Kings 16:18 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 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 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.
• Psalms 48:3 God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
• Psalms 48:13 consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
• Psalms 122:7 May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”
• Proverbs 18:19 An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
• Isaiah 23:13 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 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 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 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 Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”
• Jeremiah 9:21 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.
• Jeremiah 17:27 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.’”
• Jeremiah 30:18 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.
• Jeremiah 49:27 “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
• Lamentations 2:5 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.
• Lamentations 2:7 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.
• Hosea 8:14 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.
• Amos 1:4 So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.
• Amos 1:7 So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.
• Amos 1:10 So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
• Amos 1:12 So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”
• Amos 1:14 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.
• Amos 2:2 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 So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
• Amos 3:9 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.”
• Amos 3:10 “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
• Amos 3:11 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
• Amos 6:8 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.”
• Micah 5:5 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.