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# בַּחַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H975

**watch-tower** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

watch-tower [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/975/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּ֫חַן: watch-tower [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/975/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] watch-tower, Is 32:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: watchtower (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.14/#tree)

כִּֽי־אַרְמ֣וֹן נֻטָּ֔שׁ הֲמ֥וֹן עִ֖יר עֻזָּ֑ב עֹ֣פֶל וָבַ֜חַן הָיָ֨ה בְעַ֤ד מְעָרוֹת֙ עַד־עוֹלָ֔ם מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ פְּרָאִ֖ים מִרְעֵ֥ה עֲדָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[the\].palace it.will.be.forsaken \[the\].tumult of.\[the\].city it.will.be.abandoned \[the\].hill and.\[the\] watchtower it.will.become behind caves until perpetuity a.joy of.wild.donkeys a.pasture of.flocks

*JPS 1917:* For the palace shall be forsaken; the city with its stir shall be deserted; the mound and the tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/975.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/975/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).