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Featured studies
4 results- StudyThe Tower of Babel : Genesis 11Humanity unites to make a name against heaven; God confuses the tongues and scatters the nations, the scattering Pentecost reverses.
- StudyThe Just Shall Live by His FaithHabakkuk 2:4 and its three New Testament quotations (Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38) one line of Hebrew that becomes Luther's Reformation tower text.
- StudyHabakkuk: the Study GuideThe prophet who put God on trial and was answered with a Person, not an explanation: the watchtower, the five woes on Babylon, and the verse that became the Reformation's tower text.
- StudyBabylonOne city from the plain of Shinar to the last book of the Bible: the tower, the empire that burned the temple, and the name John gives every power that trades in souls.
Verses
53 results- VerseIsaiah 2:15against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
- VerseJudges 9:52When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.
- VerseProverbs 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
- VersePsalms 48:12March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
- VersePsalms 61:3For You have been my refuge, a tower of strength against the enemy.
People
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2 results- PlaceShinarThe Babylonian plain of Nimrod's kingdom and Babel's tower, and the land where Zechariah's vision gives wickedness a house.
- PlaceBabelThe city and tower on the plain of Shinar where men set out to make a name for themselves, and where God confused their speech and scattered them, a confusion Pentecost reverses.
Words (Strong's)
- WordH971 בַּחִין · bachîyn (Hebrew)a watch-tower of besiegers. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH975 בַּחַן · bachan (Hebrew)a watch-tower. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG4444 πύργος · pýrgos (Greek)a tower or castle. The Greek word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordH1431 גָּדַל · gâdal (Hebrew)to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride). The Hebrew word stands 117 times in the original text.
- WordH969 בָּחוֹן · bâchôwn (Hebrew)an assayer or metals. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
Concepts
9 results- ConceptSeedOne word that carries the whole promise: a line of descent that narrows, verse by verse, to one Person.
- ConceptSacrificeLife given in place of life: the principle stated in Leviticus 17:11 and carried from Eden's coats of skin to Calvary.
- ConceptThe LambFrom Abraham's "God will provide himself a lamb" to the Lamb standing as slain in heaven: the Bible's longest single image.
- ConceptThe Abrahamic CovenantLand, seed, and blessing sworn to one man: unconditional, and the root every later promise grows from.
- ConceptThe New CovenantLaw written on hearts, sins remembered no more: promised to Israel by Jeremiah, ratified in a cup on the night of betrayal.
Topics
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1 resultVoices
2 results- VoiceThomas WatsonThomas Watson preached at St Stephen's Walbrook in London for about sixteen years, and his hearers packed the place. He was jailed in the Tower in 1651 for his part in a plot…
- VoiceAnne AskewAnne Askew was a Lincolnshire gentlewoman, married against her will to a Catholic neighbor and turned out of the house when she would not stop reading the English Bible. She…
Apocrypha (study resources)
52 results- Study resourceSirach 26:22An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman is a tower against death to her husband.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 6:32Upon this Judas removed from the tower, and pitched in Bathzacharias, over against the king’s camp.
- Study resourceSirach 37:14For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 10:9Whereupon they of the tower delivered their hostages unto Jonathan, and he delivered them unto their parents.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 6:26And, behold, this day are they besieging the tower at Jerusalem, to take it: the sanctuary also and Bethsura have they fortified.
Doorways
Study a word
H971בַּחִין bachîyn — a watch-tower of besiegersH975בַּחַן bachan — a watch-towerG4444πύργος pýrgos — a tower or castleH1431גָּדַל gâdal — to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)H969בָּחוֹן bâchôwn — an assayer or metalsH2691חָצֵר châtsêr — a yard (as inclosed by a fence)