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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Tower

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

48exact KJV occurrences 44Old Testament 4New Testament 18books containing the word 8mapped Strong's IDs 48occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Luke 14:28

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where tower appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 33 verses Judges 97 verses 2 Samuel 22 verses 2 Kings 44 verses 2 Chronicles 11 verses Nehemiah 97 verses Psalms 33 verses Proverbs 11 verses Song of Solomon 32 verses Isaiah 22 verses Jeremiah 22 verses Ezekiel 22 verses Micah 11 verses Habakkuk 11 verses Zechariah 11 verses Matthew 11 verses Mark 11 verses Luke 22 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4869
מִשְׂגָּב

misgâb · mis-gawb'

3 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences

n-m n-pr-loc

properly, a cliff (or other lofty or inaccessible place); abstractly, altitude; figuratively, a refuge; Misgab, a place in Moab

Strong's KJV usage: defence, high fort (tower), refuge, Misgab.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:3Strong's last: Psalms 144:2

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HebrewH4692
מָצוֹר

mâtsôwr · maw-tsore'

1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness

Strong's KJV usage: besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Habakkuk 2:1Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:1

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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9 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Judges 8:9
H4026

And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

Judges 8:17
H4026

And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

Judges 9:46
H4026

And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.

Judges 9:47
H4026

And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

Judges 9:49
H4026

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

Judges 9:51
H4026

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Judges 9:51
H4026

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Judges 9:52
H4026

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

Judges 9:52
H4026

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

tower

TOW'ER, noun [Latin turris.]

1. A building, either round or square, raised to a considerable elevation and consisting of several stories. When towers are erected with other buildings, as they usually are, they rise above the main edifice. They are generally flat on the top, and thus differ from steeples or spires. Before the invention of guns, places were fortified with towers and attacked with movable towers mounted on wheels, which placed the besiegers on a level with the walls.

2. A citadel; a fortress. Psalms 61:3.

3. A high head dress.

4. High flight; elevation.

Tower bastion, in fortification, a small tower in the form of a bastion, with rooms or cells underneath for men and guns.

Tower of London, a citadel containing an arsenal. It is also a palace where the kings of England have sometimes lodged.

TOW'ER, verb intransitive To rise and fly high; to soar; to be lofty.

Sublime thoughts, which tower above the clouds.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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