It has been a fort since ancient times.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people that you may know and try their way.

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

They were as fed horses roaming at large everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

They were as fed horses in the morning every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

Thou also shalt be drunken thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

It was an important fortress during the Ottoman wars in Europe but it was captured in 1566.

Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

Special border forces consisting of more than 17,000 trained and equipped personnel are arrayed in 36 battalions that man 258 border forts around Iraq.