Tower
בַחוּןStrong’s H0971bachin (ba-chin)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bachin is the Hebrew word usually translated “siege-towers its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.”
Meaning
- Siege-towers, watchtower
How it's translated
- siege-towers its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בַחוּן bachin · tower
siege-towers, watchtower
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tower” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOW'ER, noun
[Latin turris.]
- A building, either round or square, raised to a considerable elevation and consisting of several stories.
- A citadel; a fortress. Psalms 61:3
- A high head dress.
- High flight; elevation.
All definitions and other forms of “tower”
TOW'ER, verb intransitive
To rise and fly high; to soar; to be lofty.
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.