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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

bool'-wark: The word represents several Hebrew terms (chel, Isa 26:1; chelah, Ps 48:13; matsodh, Ec 9:14; matsor, De 20:20). In 2Ch 26:15 the word is translated in the Revised Version (British and American) "battlements."

See FORTIFICATION.