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Lexicon :: Strong's H4026 - miḡdāl

Aa
מִגְדָּל
Transliteration
miḡdāl
Pronunciation
mig-dawl'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 315f,315g

Strong’s Definitions

מִגְדָּל migdâl, mig-dawl'; also (in plural) feminine מִגְדָּלָה migdâlâh; from H1431; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers:—castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x

The KJV translates Strong's H4026 in the following manner: tower (47x), castles (1x), flowers (1x), pulpit (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x
The KJV translates Strong's H4026 in the following manner: tower (47x), castles (1x), flowers (1x), pulpit (1x).

  1. tower

    1. tower

    2. elevated stage, pulpit

    3. raised bed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִגְדָּל migdâl, mig-dawl'; also (in plural) feminine מִגְדָּלָה migdâlâh; from H1431; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers:—castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.
STRONGS H4026: Abbreviations
† מִגְדָּל noun masculine tower, Genesis 11:5 + 11 times; construct מִגְדַּל Judges 8:17 + 21 times; plural מִגְדָּלִים 2 Chronicles 26:9 + 6 times; מִגְדָּלֶיהָ Psalm 48:12; Ezekiel 26:4; pluralf. מִגְדָּלוֺת 2 Chronicles 32:5 + 2 times; construct מִגְדְּלוֺת Songs 5:13 (?); suffix מִגְדְּלֹתַיִךְ Ezekiel 26:9; Ezekiel 27:11; —
1. tower Genesis 11:4, 5; Judges 8:9; Judges 9:51 (twice in verse); Judges 9:52 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 9:17; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings 18:8; 1 Chronicles 27:25; 2 Chronicles 14:6; 2 Chronicles 26:9, 10, 11; 27:4; 32:5; Nehemiah 3:25, 26, 27; Isaiah 2:15; Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 33:18; Ezekiel 26:4, 9; Ezekiel 27:11; Psalm 48:13, watch-tower in vineyard Isaiah 5:2; figurative of God as refuge Psalm 61:4; Proverbs 18:10; beautiful neck like tower of David Songs 4:4; an ivory tower Songs 7:5; breasts Songs 8:10. (compare MI22 מגדלתה, Sabean (more precisely Lihyânian) מגדלנהן, Eut, see DHMEpigr. Denkm. 4, 1. 5). Special towers mentioned on Lebanon Cant 7:5, Penuel Judges 8:17, Shechem Judges 9:46, 47, 49; and at Jerusalem, the tower of David Cant 4:4 (the arsenal), מֵאָה Nehemiah 3:1, חֲנַנְאֵל Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 12:39; Jeremiah 31:38; Zechariah 14:10, תַּנּוּרִים Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 12:38 (tower of the furnaces).
2. elevated stage, pulpit of wood Nehemiah 8:4.
3. raised bed || עֲרוּגָה Songs 5:13, but Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Hi Bö De rightly read מְגַדְּלוֺת.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:4; 11:5; 11:5

Judges

8:9; 8:17; 8:17; 9:46; 9:47; 9:49; 9:51; 9:52

2 Kings

9:17; 17:9; 18:8

1 Chronicles

27:25

2 Chronicles

14:6; 26:9; 26:9; 26:10; 26:11; 27:4; 32:5; 32:5

Nehemiah

3:1; 3:1; 3:11; 3:25; 3:26; 3:27; 8:4; 12:38; 12:39

Psalms

48:12; 48:13; 61:4

Proverbs

18:10

Song of Songs

4:4; 4:4; 5:13; 5:13; 7:5; 7:5; 8:10

Isaiah

2:15; 5:2; 30:25; 33:18

Jeremiah

31:38

Ezekiel

26:4; 26:4; 26:9; 26:9; 27:11; 27:11

Zechariah

14:10

H4026

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Strong's Number H4026 matches the Hebrew מִגְדָּל (miḡdāl),
which occurs 49 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - So he said to the men of Penuel, When I come back in peace, I will have this tower broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:46 - Then all the townsmen of the tower of Shechem, hearing of it, went into the inner room of the house of El-berith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47 - And word was given to Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were there together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, were burned to death with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But in the middle of the town there was a strong tower, to which all the men and women of the town went in flight and, shutting themselves in, went up to the roof of the tower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:52 - And Abimelech came to the tower and made an attack on it, and got near to the door of the tower for the purpose of firing it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - And the watchman on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu and his band coming, and said, I see a band of people. And Joram said, Send out a horseman to them, and let him say, Is it peace?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25 - And Azmaveth, the son of Adiel, was controller of the king's property; Jonathan, the son of Uzziah, had control of all store-houses in country places and in the towns and little towns and strong places;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:9 - Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:10 - And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15 - And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:4 - In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:1 - Then Eliashib, the chief priest, got up with his brothers the priests, and took in hand the building of the sheep doorway; they made it holy and put its doors in position; as far as the tower of Hammeah they made it holy, even to the tower of Hananel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:11 - Malchijah, the son of Harim, and Hasshub, the son of Pahath-moab, were working on another part, and the tower of the ovens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - Palal, the son of Uzai, made good the wall opposite the angle and the tower which comes out from the higher part of the king's house, by the open space of the watch. After him was Pedaiah, the son of Parosh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:26 - (Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - After him the Tekoites were making good another part, opposite the great tower which comes out, and up to the wall of the Ophel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:4 - And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:38 - And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:39 - And over the doorway of Ephraim and by the old door and the fish door and the tower of Hananel and the tower of Hammeah, as far as the sheep door: and at the doorway of the watchmen they came to a stop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:12 - Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:3 - For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:10 - The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 - Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13 - His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 - I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:15 - And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:2 - And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:25 - And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 - Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:38 - See, the days are coming, says the Lord, for the building of the Lord's town, from the tower of Hananel to the doorway of the angle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:8 - And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:10 - And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will be living in her.
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