ar.mon denotes a fortified city structure, usually a citadel and in royal settings a palace.

The term most often denotes fortified structures within a city or territory, frequently described as destroyed, burned, plundered, or abandoned. In several singular and royal-house settings, it refers more specifically to a palace-like building associated with a king, a city’s restoration, or a foreign ruler’s residence.

1. Fortified city structures under threat or ruin · dominant

   Plural forms commonly occur with cities, lands, or named places and their vulnerable fortified structures. In Amos 1:10 the APB renders fire as devouring Tyre’s “citadels”; Amos 3:9 places assemblies on the citadels of Ashdod and Egypt, while Amos 3:11 says such structures will be plundered. Jeremiah 17:27 and Isaiah 34:13 likewise place them in scenes of fire, abandonment, and overgrowth.

   Amos 1:10Amos 3:9Amos 3:11Jeremiah 17:27Isaiah 34:13Psalm 122:7
2. Palace or king-associated residence · common

   Singular forms can identify a building tied to a king’s house or a city’s restored order. In 1 Kings 16:18 and 2 Kings 15:25, the construct form occurs in the phrase rendered “citadel of the king’s house”; Isaiah 25:2 calls a foreign city’s structure a “palace,” and Jeremiah 30:18 says the “palace” will stand in its proper place.

   1 Kings 16:182 Kings 15:25Isaiah 25:2Jeremiah 30:18Proverbs 18:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the term as “citadels,” especially in scenes of fire, siege, plunder, and abandonment; it also uses “palace” or “palaces” in some royal or city-building contexts. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those renderings show the verse context rather than a fixed one-to-one translation.