a stronghold or fortified place such as in mycenaea - is called a citadel.
a stronghold or fortified place such as in mycenaea - is called a citadel.
a stronghold or fortified place such as in mycenaea - is called a?
citadel
biblical verses in which it has been translated either as "fortified place " (tower, citadel, stronghold etc.) or "hill" are , 2 chronicles 27:3 and 33:14, , nehemiah 3:26 and 11:21, and . on the mesha stele, named for the king of moab who erected it, mesha says: "i built q-r-ch-h (? karhah), the wall of "ye'arim" [forests], and the wall of "ophel" and i built its gates and i built its towers." here "ophel" is commonly translated as "citadel".









































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section::::jerusalem ophel.:hebrew bible.
ophel
the town was the early capital of the kingdom of powys, known to the ancient britons as pengwern, signifying "the alder hill"; and in old english as ' (dative '), which may mean either "scrobb's fort" or "the fortified place in the bushes". this name gradually evolved in three directions, into ', which became "shropshire"; into ', which became ' / ' (an alternative name for both town and county), and into ', which eventually became the town's name, shrewsbury. its later welsh name ' means "fortified place".
shrewsbury