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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(shot up). Watchtowers, or fortified posts, were frequent on frontiers and exposed places (Gen. 35:21²¹And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. (Genesis 35:21); 2 Chron. 26:10¹⁰Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry. (2 Chronicles 26:10)); around vineyards (Isa. 21:5,8,11⁵Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. (Isaiah 21:5)
⁸And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: (Isaiah 21:8)
¹¹The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? (Isaiah 21:11); Matt. 21:33³³Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: (Matthew 21:33)), and for the use of shepherds (Mic. 4:8⁸And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. (Micah 4:8)). “Tower of Shechem” (Judg. 9:47⁴⁷And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. (Judges 9:47)), evidently a citadel or stronghold. Tower of Babel [BABEL]. “Tower of Siloam,” possibly an observatory (Luke 13:4⁴Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? (Luke 13:4)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Often referred to in scripture as a place of security, and also as a place of defense, on which watchmen were stationed. There were such on the walls of Jerusalem (Psa. 48:12¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. (Psalm 48:12); Psa. 61:3³For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. (Psalm 61:3); 2 Kings 9:17¹⁷And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace? (2 Kings 9:17)). The term is also used symbolically: “the name of Jehovah is a strong tower” (Prov. 18:10¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. (Proverbs 18:10)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

975 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

bachan

Phonic:

bakh’-an

Meaning:

from 974 (in the sense of keeping a look-out); a watch-tower

KJV Usage:

tower