Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #969 - בָּחוֹן bachown' (a tower)

Original Word:	בָּחוֹן
Transliteration:	bachown'
Definition:	a tower
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(baw-khone')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

tower

From bachan; an assayer or metals -- tower.

see HEBREW bachan

Englishman's Concordance

1) assayer (an inspector and valuer of metals)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H974
Same Word by TWOT Number: 230d

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בָּחוֺןnoun [masculine]assayer, one who tries metalsJeremiah 6:27 (Ges^{§ 84}, 3 Ew^{§ 152 b}).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 969. בָּחוֹן (bachown') — 1 Occurrence
Jeremiah 6:27
HEB: בָּח֛וֹן נְתַתִּ֥יךָ בְעַמִּ֖י
NAS: I have made you an assayer [and] a tester
KJV: I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress
INT:an assayer have made my people

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