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denoted by four or five Heb. words from the root ðָöִá , natsab', to stand firm or erect (i.q. éָöִá ),
1. îִöָּá matstsab' (fem. îִöָּáָä , matstsabah', 1Sa_14:12), a station, i.e., lit. a standing-place (e.g. where the priests stood in Jordan, "place," Jos_4:3; Jos_4:9); hence a military or fortified post (e.g. the Philistine camp, 1Sa_13:23; 1Sa_14:1; 1Sa_14:4; 1Sa_14:6; 1Sa_14:11-12; 1Sa_14:15; 2Sa_23:11-14); metaph. an office or public "station" (Isa_22:19).
2. îֻöָּá , mutstsab', a cordon of troops ("mount," Isa_29:3; perhaps also "pillar," Jdg_9:6).
3. ðְöִַéáּ , netsib', properly a praefect or superintendent ("officer," 1Ki_4:19; 2Ch_8:10); hence a military post (1Sa_10:5; 1Sa_13:3-4; 2Sa_8:6; 2Sa_8:14; 1Ch_11:16; 1Ch_18:13; 2Ch_17:2); also a monumental "pilla" (q.v.) or cippus (e.g., a statue of salt, Gen_19:26; a sense in which some take the word also in 1Sa_10:5; 1Sa_13:3, like the stelae erected by Sesostris in conquered countries in token of subjugation, Herod. 2:102, 106).
4. An improper rendering, Eze_26:11, of îִöְּáָä , smatstsebah', which always designates a standing object, either an architact-tsal or monumental column (usually rendered "pillar;" in the passage of Ezekiel perhaps referring to those of the Tyrian temples; comp. Herod. 2:14), or an idolatrous "image" (q.v.). SEE FORTIFICATION.