969 - bachown'

Strong's Concordance

Original word: בָּחוֹן
Transliteration: bachown'
Definition (short): tower
Definition (full): an assayer, metals

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From bachan; an assayer or metals -- tower.

see HEBREW bachan

KJV: 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.
NASB: Behold, the land of the Chaldeans-- this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures-- they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
KJV: I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
NASB: "I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people, That you may know and assay their way."