Watchtower
בַּ֫חַןStrong’s H0975bachan (ba-chan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bachan is the Hebrew word usually translated “watchtower”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;”
Meaning
- Watchtower
How it's translated
- and watchtower 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בַּ֫חַן bachan · watchtower
watchtower
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “watchtower” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WATCHTOWER, noun
[watch and tower.]
A tower on which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies or the approach of danger.
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.