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title: בַחוּן — their siege-towers · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בַחוּן (lemma:בַחוּן), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: their siege-towers. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בַחוּן

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«בַחוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **their siege-towers** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:בַחוּן · **BDB:** בחון

### Glosses

siege-towers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

their siege-towers [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5d7_5d5_5bc_5df/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** sf. בַּחוּנָיו (dag. f. implic. Qr; בחיניו Kt) Is 23:13 their siege-towers.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בַחוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5d7_5d5_5bc_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 23:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.13/)

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הֵ֣ן ׀ אֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים זֶ֤ה הָעָם֙ לֹ֣א הָיָ֔ה אַשּׁ֖וּר יְסָדָ֣הּ לְצִיִּ֑ים הֵקִ֣ימוּ בַחוּנָ֗יו עֹרְרוּ֙ אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ שָׂמָ֖הּ לְמַפֵּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* there! the.land of.\[the\].Chaldeans this \[is\].the people \[which\].not it.was Assyria it allocated.it to desert-dwellers they.raised.up siege-towers its they.laid.bare palaces its it made.it (into).a ruin

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the land of the Chaldeans — this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen — they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin.

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