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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Tower
Thompson Chain Reference
• Towers
• Babel, Tower of
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Towers
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Towers
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Babel, Tower of
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Towers
• Tower of the Furnaces
• Siloam, Tower of
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Towers
• Siloam, Tower of
• Meah, Tower of
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Tower
• Ovens, Tower of the
• Meah, Tower of
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Watch Tower
• Tower
• Hammeah, the Tower of
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Tower
King James Dictionary
• Tower
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Tower
• Siloam, Tower in
• Lebanon, Tower of
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Towers, Round
• Round Towers
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Tower
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Tower
• Siloam Tower in
• Edar Tower of
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Tower
• Tower
Wilson's Bible Types
• Tower
Webster Dictionary
• Towering (2)
• Towering
• Towered (2)
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Tower
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Eiffel Tower
• The Tower of London
• Tower
Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia
• Tower of Babel
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Babel, Tower of
• David, Tower of
• Furnaces, Tower of the
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Babel Tower of
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Jezreel, Tower of
• Pile-Tower, or Pele-Tower
• Rood-Steeple, or Rood-Tower.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Eiffel Tower
• Leaning Tower
• Martello Towers
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Tower of Babel
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Abraham, Tower of
• Babel, Tower of
• Hammeah, Tower of
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Lexicons
• ܡܰܓ݂ܕ݁ܠܳܐ
• πύργος
• אַרְמוֹן
• בָּחוֹן
• בַּחוּן , בַּחִין
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Used as parts of city walls, or separate, as EDAR, LEBANON, etc., to defend wells, flocks, or commerce (2 Chronicles 26:10; 2 Chronicles 27:4; Genesis 35:21; Micah 4:8). Also attached to vineyards, as lodges for the keepers, wherein they could watch against the depredations of man or beast (Isaiah 5:2; Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1).