Dict: smith - GARRISON

smith:

GARRISON - G>@ - The Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version are derivatives from the root natsab , to "place, erect," which may be applied to a variety of objects. Mattsab and mattsabah undoubtedly mean a "garrison" or fortified post. ( kjv@1Samuel:13:23 kjv@1Samuel:14:14; kjv@1Samuel:15; 2 Samuel 23:14) Netsib is also used for a "garrison" in ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:16) but elsewhere for a "column" erected in an enemy’s country as a token of conquest. ( kjv@1Samuel:13:3) The same word elsewhere means "officers" placed over a vanquished people. (2 Samuel 8:6,14; kjv@1Chronicles:18:13; kjv@2Chronicles:17:2) Mattsebah in kjv@Ezekiel:26:11) means a "pillar."