Assayer
בָּחוֹןStrong’s H0969bachon (ba-chon)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bachon is the Hebrew word usually translated “assayer”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.”
Meaning
- Assayer (an inspector and valuer of metals)
How it's translated
- an assayer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בָּחוֹן bachon · assayer
assayer (an inspector and valuer of metals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “assayer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ASSA'YER, noun
One who examines metals to find their quantity and purity. An officer of the mint, whose business is to try the weight and purity of metals.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.