me.tsu.rah denotes a fortified place or city, whether strengthened, assigned, captured, or raised against an opponent.

The term denotes fortified places, especially cities treated as defensible locations: they are built and strengthened, supplied and assigned, captured, or raised in opposition. Its singular occurrences fit the same broad setting, though the APB does not isolate a corresponding English expression in every clause.

1. Fortified places and cities · dominant

   The plural form names places built as fortress cities in 2 Chronicles 11:10, strengthened and supplied in 2 Chronicles 11:11, and distributed with gifts in 2 Chronicles 21:3. In 2 Chronicles 12:4 the APB renders their capture as the taking of “fortified cities,” while Isaiah 29:3 places the plural among measures raised against the addressed city.

   2 Chronicles 11:102 Chronicles 11:112 Chronicles 11:232 Chronicles 12:42 Chronicles 21:3Isaiah 29:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the clearer clauses, the APB uses “fortress cities,” “fortresses,” and “fortified cities.” Its wording in 2 Chronicles 14:5 and Nahum 2:2 does not clearly isolate this term.