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Tower

16Greek/Hebrew entries

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Greek G2701 katatréchō

Original: κατατρέχω

Meaning:
from κατά and τρέχω; to run down, i.e. hasten from a tower:--run down.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to run down, i.e. hasten from a tower:--run down.

Greek G3925 parembolḗ

Original: παρεμβολή

Meaning:
from a compound of παρά and ἐμβάλλω; a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia):--army, camp, castle.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia):--army, camp, castle.

Greek G4241 prépō

Original: πρέπω

Meaning:
apparently a primary verb; to tower up (be conspicuous), i.e. (by implication) to be suitable or proper (third person singular present indicative, often used impersonally, it is fit or right):--become, comely.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to tower up (be conspicuous), i.e. (by implication) to be suitable or proper (third person singular present indicative, often used impersonally, it is fit or right):--become, comely.

Greek G4444 pýrgos

Original: πύργος

Meaning:
apparently a primary word ("burgh"); a tower or castle:--tower.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: a tower or castle:--tower.

Hebrew H969 bâchôwn

Original: בָּחוֹן

Meaning:
xlit bâchôwnʼ corrected to bâchôwn; from בָּחַן; an assayer or metals; tower.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: tower.

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Hebrew H971 bachîyn

Original: בַּחִין

Meaning:
another form of בַּחַן; a watch-tower of besiegers; tower.

Hebrew H975 bachan

Original: בַּחַן

Meaning:
from בָּחַן (in the sense of keeping a look-out); a watch-tower; tower.

Hebrew H2691 châtsêr

Original: חָצֵר

Meaning:
(masculine and feminine); from חָצַר in its original sense; a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls); court, tower, village.

Hebrew H4024 Migdôwl

Original: מִגְדּוֹל

Meaning:
or מִגְדֹּל; probably of Egyptian origin; Migdol, a place in Egypt; Migdol, tower.

Hebrew H4026 migdâl

Original: מִגְדָּל

Meaning:
also (in plural) feminine מִגְדָּלָה; from גָּדַל; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers; castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.

Hebrew H4029 Migdal-ʻÊder

Original: מִגְדַּל־עֵדֶר

Meaning:
from מִגְדָּל and עֵדֶר; tower of a flock; Migdal-Eder, a place in Palestine; Migdal-eder, tower of the flock.

Hebrew H4692 mâtsôwr

Original: מָצוֹר

Meaning:
or מָצוּר; from צוּר; something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness; besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.

Hebrew H4707 mitspeh

Original: מִצְפֶּה

Meaning:
from צָפָה; an observatory, especially formilitary purposes; watch tower.

Hebrew H4708 Mitspeh

Original: מִצְפֶּה

Meaning:
the same as מִצְפֶּה; Mitspeh, the name of five places in Palestine; Mizpeh, watch tower. Compare מִצְפָּה.

Hebrew H6076 ʻôphel

Original: עֹפֶל

Meaning:
from עָפַל; a tumor; also a mound, i.e. fortress; emerod, fort, strong hold, tower.

Hebrew H6438 pinnâh

Original: פִּנָּה

Meaning:
feminine of פֵּן; an angle; by implication, a pinnacle; figuratively, a chieftain; bulwark, chief, corner, stay, tower.

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^{Genesis 11:4} And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Open

^{Genesis 11:5} And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. Open

^{Genesis 35:21} And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. Open

^{Judges 8:9} And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. Open

^{Judges 8:17} And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. Open

^{Judges 9:46} And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. Open

^{Judges 9:47} And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. Open

^{Judges 9:49} And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. Open

^{Judges 9:51} But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. Open

^{Judges 9:52} And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. Open

^{2 Samuel 22:3} The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. Open

^{2 Samuel 22:51} He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. Open

^{2 Kings 5:24} And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed. Open

^{2 Kings 9:17} And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace? Open

^{2 Kings 17:9} And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. Open

^{2 Kings 18:8} He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. Open

^{2 Chronicles 20:24} And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped. Open

^{Nehemiah 3:1} Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel. Open

^{Nehemiah 3:11} Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces. Open

^{Nehemiah 3:25} Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh. Open

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^{Nehemiah 3:26} Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out. Open

^{Nehemiah 3:27} After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel. Open

^{Nehemiah 12:38} And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall; Open

^{Nehemiah 12:39} And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate. Open

^{Psalm 18:2} The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. Open

^{Psalm 61:3} For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Open

^{Psalm 144:2} My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. Open

^{Proverbs 18:10} The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Open

^{Song of Solomon 4:4} Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Open

^{Song of Solomon 7:4} Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. Open

^{Isaiah 2:15} And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, Open

^{Isaiah 5:2} And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. Open

^{Jeremiah 6:27} I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. Open

^{Jeremiah 31:38} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. Open

^{Ezekiel 29:10} Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. Open

^{Ezekiel 30:6} Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. Open

^{Micah 4:8} And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. Open

^{Habakkuk 2:1} I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. Open

^{Zechariah 14:10} All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. Open

^{Matthew 21:33} Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: Open

^{Mark 12:1} And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. Open

^{Luke 13:4} Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? Open

^{Luke 14:28} For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Open

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