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Tower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

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

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

Tower [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To rise and fly high; to soar; to be lofty.

2. Sublime thoughts, which tower above the clouds.

Tower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

2. A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.

3. A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

4. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

5. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

6. High flight; elevation.

Tower [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

Tower [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To soar into.

Tower Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

“The tower of the flock,” or the tower of Ader, Micah iv, 8. It is said this tower was in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem, Gen. xxxv, 21, and that the shepherds, to whom the angel revealed the birth of our Saviour, were near to this tower, Luke ii, 8, 15. Many interpreters assert, that the passage of Micah, in which mention is made of the tower of the flock: “And thou tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion,” is to be understood of the city of Bethlehem, out of which our Saviour was to come. Others maintain, that the prophet speaks of the city of Jerusalem, in which there was a tower of this name, through which the flocks of sheep were driven to the sheep-market. “From the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city,” 2 Kings xvii, 9. This form of speaking expresses in general all the places of the country, from the least to the greatest. The towers of the watchmen, or of the shepherds, stood alone in the midst of the plain, in which the shepherds and herdsmen who looked after the flocks, or watchmen, might lodge. King Uzziah caused several towers to be built for the shepherds in the desert, and made many cisterns there, because he had a great number of flocks, 2 Chronicles xxvi, 10. The tower of the flock, and that which Isaiah, v, 2, notices, which was built in the midst of a vineyard, were of the same kind.

OF BABEL. See BABEL.

OF SHECHEM was a citadel, or fortress, standing upon a higher ground than the rest of the city, and capacious enough to contain above a thousand persons. This tower, filled with the inhabitants of Shechem, was burned by Abimelech down to the very ground, together with those who had taken refuge in it.

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Tower-mustard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Turritis.

Towered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Adorned or defended by towers.

Towered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Adorned or defended by towers.

Towered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tower

Towering [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Very high; elevated; as a towering highth.

Towering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rising aloft; mounting high; soaring.

Towering [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.

2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.

Towering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tower

Towery [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having towers; adorned or defended by towers; as towery cities.

Towery [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.

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105 KJV and 53 BSB verses contain “tower” — showing the first 20. Show all 114 verses (searchable)

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.

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

Genesis 11:5

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

Genesis 35:21

And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.

Judges 8:9

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

So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!”

Judges 8:17

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

He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

Judges 9:46

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

On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.

Judges 9:47

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

And when Abimelech was told that all the leaders in the tower of Shechem were gathered there,

Judges 9:49

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.

So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

Judges 9:51

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.

But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 9:52

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

When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.

2 Samuel 22:3

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

2 Samuel 22:51

He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”

2 Kings 5:24

And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed.

2 Kings 9:17

And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”

2 Kings 17:9

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.

2 Kings 18:8

He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

2 Chronicles 14:7

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

2 Chronicles 20:24

And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

2 Chronicles 26:9

Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.

2 Chronicles 26:10

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.