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בַּחַן

ba.chan

watchtower

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Strong’s H975Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the watchtower1

In the text

Isaiah 32:14וָבַחַן
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בַּ֫חַן n.[m.] watch-tower, Is 32:14.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.