KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

Of Babel
Genesis 11:1-9

Of Edar
Genesis 35:21

Of Penuel
Judges 8:8-9; Judges 8:17

Of Shechem
Judges 9:46; Judges 9:49

Of Meah
Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 12:39

Of Hananeel
Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 12:39; Jeremiah 31:38; Zech 14:10

Of David
Song of Solomon 4:4

Of Syene
Ezekiel 29:10

Of Siloam
Luke 13:4

In the walls of Jerusalem
2 Chronicles 26:9; 2 Chronicles 32:5; Nehemiah 12:38-39

Of other cities
2 Chronicles 14:7

In the desert
2 Chronicles 26:10

For watchmen or sentinels
2 Kings 9:17; 2 Kings 18:8

As fortress
Matthew 21:33

Parable of
Luke 14:28-29
Fort

Figurative of divine protection
2 Samuel 22:3; 2 Samuel 22:51; Psalms 18:2; Psalms 61:3; Psalms 144:2; Proverbs 18:10

Watch-towers or fortified posts in frontier or exposed situations are mentioned in Scripture, as the tower of Edar, etc., (Genesis 35:21; Isaiah 21:5,8,11; Micah 4:8) etc.; the tower of Lebanon. (2 Samuel 8:6) Besides these military structures, we read in Scripture of towers built in vineyards as an almost necessary appendage to them. (1 Samuel 5:2; Matthew 22:33; Mark 12:1) Such towers are still in use in Palestine in vineyards, especially near Hebron, and are used as lodges for the keepers of the vineyards.

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.

(Nehemiah 3:11; 12:38), a tower at the north-western angle of the second wall of Jerusalem. It was probably so named from its contiguity to the "bakers' street" (Jeremiah 37:21).

TOW'ERED, adjective Adorned or defended by towers.

TOW'ERING, participle present tense Rising aloft; mounting high; soaring.

1. adjective Very high; elevated; as a towering highth.

TOW'ER-MUSTARD, noun [tower and mustard.] A plant of the genus Turritis.

Of Babel (Genesis 11:4), Edar (Genesis 35:21), Penuel (Judges 8:9, 17), Shechem (9:46), David (Song of Solomon 4:4), Lebanon (7:4), Syene (Ezekiel 29:10), Hananeel (Zechariah 14:10), Siloam (Luke 13:4). There were several towers in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 26:9; Psalms 48:12). They were erected for various purposes, as watch-towers in vineyard (Isaiah 5:2; Matthew 21:33) and towers for defence.

TOW'ERY, adjective Having towers; adorned or defended by towers; as towery cities.