בַּחִין
bachîyn · H971 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
Meanings
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siege tower
Exact meaning unsure, probably: high wooden structure with a platform on top; erected for soldiers to be able to fire missiles into a besieged city
ExamplesIsaiah 23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that did not exist; Assyria allocated it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוּםto arise 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מִגְדָּל migdâl · H4026 · tower
- The most common Hebrew word for tower, used for military watchtowers, city towers, and fortifications; fully interchangeable semantically with בַּחִין in the sense of a defensive or elevated structure
In the other Testament 1 word
- πύργος pýrgos · G4444 · tower, watchtower
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew 'tower' terminology, used in LXX for various Hebrew tower words and in NT contexts (e.g., Luke 13:4, 14:28)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weapons001003001001020
- The word denotes a siege-tower, a military engine erected against a city's fortifications, as the Chaldeans 'erected their siege towers' against Tyre's ruins in Isaiah 23:13, fitting this domain's category for implements of war.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H971. bachin [בחון] suffix בַּחוּנָיו (daghesh forte implicit Qr; בחיניו Kt) Isa 23:13…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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