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Nu 31:10 Strong Concordance And they burnt [08313] all their cities [05892] wherein they dwelt [04186], and all their goodly castles [02918], with fire [0784].
  King James And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Goodly castles - Rather, both here and in Gen 25:16, hamlets. The word is derived from a word טוּר ṭûr,) signifying "a row" or "range" (compare Eze 46:23); and probably indicates those collections of rude dwellings, made of stones piled one on another and covered with tent-cloths, which are used by the Arabs to this day; and which are frequently mentioned as douars in narratives of the French campaigns in Algeria. These dwellings would be formed usually in a circle. See the word "Hazeroth," in Num 11:35.
 
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35 And the people [05971] journeyed [05265] from Kibrothhattaavah [06914] unto Hazeroth [02698]; and abode at Hazeroth [02698].
23 And there was a row [02905] of building round about [05439] in them, round about [05439] them four [0702], and it was made [06213] with boiling places [04018] under the rows [02918] round about [05439].
16 These are the sons [01121] of Ishmael [03458], and these are their names [08034], by their towns [02691], and by their castles [02918]; twelve [08147] [06240] princes [05387] according to their nations [0523].