King James Version
Deuteronomy 3:5 in the King James Version says “All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.”
Deuteronomy 3:5 · KJV
So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“All these cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“were fenced”
H1219to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e., inaccessible by height or fortification)
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with preposit
“All these cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“a great”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
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