King James Bible Dictionary

A military defense.

Field fortifications
Deuteronomy 20:19-20; 2 Kings 25:1; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 17:17; Ezekiel 26:8

Defenses of cities
2 Chronicles 26:15; Isaiah 25:12
Castle; Tower; Walls

Erected in vineyards and herding grounds
2 Chronicles 26:10; Isaiah 5:2; Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9

Caves used for
Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 23:29; Isaiah 33:16

Figurative of God's care
2 Samuel 22:2-3; 2 Samuel 22:47; Psalms 18:2; Psalms 31:3; Psalms 71:3; Psalms 91:2; Psalms 144:2; Proverbs 18:10; Nahum 1:7

FORT, noun [Latin fortis, strong.]

1. A fortified place; usually, a small fortified place; a place surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; also, any building or place fortified for security against an enemy; a castle.

2. A strong side, opposed to weak side or foible.

FORTE, adverb A direction to sign with strength of voice.

FORTED, adjective Furnished with forts; guarded by forts.

FORTH, adverb

1. Forward; onward in time; in advance; as from that day forth; from that time forth

2. Forward in place or order; as one, two, three, and so forth

3. Out; aboard; noting progression or advance from a state of confinement; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.

When winter past, and summer scarce begun, invites them forth to labor in the sun.

4. Out; away; beyond the boundary of a place; as, send him forth of France. [Little used.]

5. Out into public view, or public character. Your country calls you forth into its service.

6. Thoroughly; from beginning to end. obsolete

7. On to the end. obsolete

FORTH, preposition Out of.

From forth the streets of Pomfret.

Some forth their cabins peep.

FORTH-COM'ING, adjective [See Come.] Ready to appear; making appearance. Let the prisoner be forth-coming

FORTHINK', verb transitive To repent of. [Not in use.]

FORTH-IS'SUING, adjective [See Issue.] Issuing; coming out; coming forward as from a covert.

FORTHRIGHT, adverb [See Right.] Straight forward; in a straight direction. obsolete

FORTHRIGHT, noun A straight path. obsolete

FORTHWARD, adverb Forward.

FORTHWITH', adverb [forth and with.] Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received his sight forthwith Acts 9:18.

FO'RTHY, adverb Therefore. [Not used.]

FOR'TIETH, adjective [See Forty.] The fourth tenth; noting the number next after the thirty ninth.

FOR'TIFIABLE, adjective That may be fortified. [Little used.]

FORTIFICA'TION, noun [See Fortify.]

1. The act of fortifying.

2. The art or science of fortifying places to defend them against an enemy, by means of moats, ramparts, parapets and other bulwarks.

3. The works erected to defend a place against attack.

4. A fortified place; a fort; a castle.

5. Additional strength.

[FENCED CITIES CITIES]

FOR'TIFIER, noun

1. One who erects works for defense.

2. One who strengthens, supports and upholds; that which strengthens.

FOR'TIFY, verb transitive

1. To surround with a wall, ditch, palisades or other works, with a view to defend against the attacks of an enemy; to strengthen and secure by forts, batteries and other works of art; as, to fortify a city, town or harbor.

2. To strengthen against any attack; as, to fortify the mind against sudden calamity.

3. To confirm; to add strength and firmness to; as, to fortify an opinion or resolution; to fortify hope or desire.

4. To furnish with strength or means of resisting force, violence or assault.

FOR'TIFY, verb intransitive To raise strong places.

FORTILAGE, noun A little fort; a blockhouse. [Not used.]

FORTIN, noun A little fort; a field fort; a sconce.

See Courage
Courage

FOR'TITUDE, noun [Latin fortitudo, from fortis, strong.]

That strength or firmness of mind or soul which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression or despondency. fortitude is the basis or source of genuine courage or intrepidity in danger, of patience in suffering, of forbearance under injuries, and of magnanimity in all conditions of life. We sometimes confound the effect with the cause, and use fortitude as synonymous with courage or patience; but courage is an active virtue or vice, and patience is the effect of fortitude

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

FORTLET, noun A little fort.

FORT'NIGHT, noun fort'nit. The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

FOR'TRESS, noun

1. Any fortified place; a fort; a castle; a strong hold; a place of defense or security. The English have a strong fortress on the rock of Gibraltar, or that rock is a fortress

2. Defense; safety; security;

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress Psalms 18:2.

FOR'TRESS, verb transitive To furnish with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

FOR'TRESSED, adjective Defended by a fortress; protected; secured.

FORTU'ITOUS, adjective [Latin fortuitus, from the root of fors, forte, fortuna. The primary sense is to come, to fall, to happen. See Fare.]

Accidental; casual; happening by chance; coming or occurring unexpectedly, or without any known cause. We speak of fortuitous events, when they occur without our foreseeing or expecting them, and of a fortuitous concourse of atoms, when we suppose the concourse not to result from the design and power of a controlling agent. But an event cannot be in fact fortuitous [See Accidental and Casual.]

FORTU'ITOUSLY, adverb Accidentally; casually; by chance.

FORTU'ITOUSNESS, noun The quality of being accidental; accident; chance.

FOR'TUNATE, adjective [Latin fortunatus. See Fortune.

1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some unexpected good; as a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate ticket in a lottery.

2. Lucky; successful; receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; as a fortunate adventurer in a lottery. I was most fortunate thus unexpectedly to meet my friend.

3. Successful; happy; prosperous; receiving or enjoying some good in consequence of efforts, but where the event was uncertain, and not absolutely in one's power. The brave man is usually fortunate We say, a fortunate competitor for a fair lady, or for a crown.

FOR'TUNATELY, adverb Luckily; successfully; happily; by good fortune, or favorable chance or issue.

FOR'TUNATENESS, noun Good luck; success; happiness.

Fortunate, a disciple of Corinth who visited Paul at Ephesus, and returned with Stephanas and Achaicus, the bearers of the apostle's first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 16:17).

lucky, fortunate

A Christian of Corinth.
1 Corinthians 16:17

(fortunate) (1 Corinthians 16:17) one of the three Corinthians the others being Stephanas and Achaicus, who were at Ephesus when St. Paul wrote his first epistle. There is a Fortunatus mentioned in the end of Clement's first epistle to the Corinthians, who was possibly the same person.

FOR'TUNE, noun [Latin fortuna, fero or porto, tempestivus. See Hour and Time.]

1. Properly, chance; accident; luck; the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner. Hence the heathens deified chance, and consecrated temples and altars to the goddess. Hence the modern use of the word, for a power supposed to distribute the lots of life, according to her own humor.

Though fortune's malice overthrow my state.

2. The good or ill that befalls man.

In you the fortune of Great Britain lies.

3. Success, good or bad; event.

Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.

4. The chance of life; means of living; wealth.

His father dying, he was driven to London to seek his fortune

5. Estate; possessions, as a gentleman of small fortune

6. A large estate; great wealth. This is often the sense of the word standing alone or unqualified; as a gentleman or lady of fortune To the ladies we say, beware of fortune-hunters.

7. The portion of a man or woman; generally of a woman.

8. Futurity; future state or events; destiny. The young are anxious to have their fortunes told.

You who men's fortunes in their faces read.

FOR'TUNE, verb transitive

1. To make fortunate. [Not used.]

2. To dispose fortunately or not; also, to presage. obsolete

FOR'TUNE, verb intransitive To befall; to fall out; to happen; to come casually to pass.

It fortuned the same night that a christian serving a Turk in the camp, secretly gave the watchmen warning.

See Sorcery
Sorcery

Joseph, from slave to prime minister
Joseph

Pharaoh's butler and baker
1 Corinthians 1:40
David; Jeroboam; Haman; Mordecai; Esther; Job; Daniel

FOR'TUNEBOOK, noun A book to be consulted to discover future events.

FOR'TUNED, adjective Supplied by fortune.

FOR'TUNE-HUNTER, noun A man who seeks to marry a woman with a large portion, with a view to enrich himself.

FOR'TUNELESS, adjective Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.

FOR'TUNETELL, verb transitive To tell or pretend to tell the future events of one's life; to reveal futurity.

FOR'TUNETELLER, noun One who tells or pretends to foretell the events of one's life; an impostor who deceives people by pretending to a knowledge of future events.

FOR'TUNETELLING, participle present tense Telling the future events of one's life.

FOR'TUNETELLING, noun The act or practice of foretelling the future fortune or events of one's life, which is a punishable crime.

FOR'TUNIZE, verb transitive To regulate the fortune of. [Not in use.]

Remarkable coincidences in the number

Days:

Of rain, at the time of the flood
Genesis 7:17

Of flood, before sending forth the raven
Genesis 8:6

For embalming
Genesis 50:3

Of fasting:

By Moses
Exodus 24:18; Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:9; Deuteronomy 9:25

By Elijah
1 Kings 19:8

By Jesus
Matthew 4:2

Spies in the land of promise
Numbers 13:25

Of probation, given to the Ninevites
Jonah 3:4

Christ's stay after the resurrection
Acts 1:3

Symbolic
Ezekiel 4:6

Years:

Wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness
Exodus 16:35; Numbers 14:34

Peace in Israel
Judges 3:11; Judges 5:31; Judges 8:28

Egypt to be desolated
Ezekiel 29:11

Egypt to be restored after
Ezekiel 29:13

Stripes, administered in punishing criminals
Deuteronomy 25:3; 2 Corinthians 11:24

FOR'TY, adjective [See Four.]

1. Four times ten.

2. An indefinite number; a colloquial use. A, B and C, and forty more.