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Lexicon :: Strong's G4444 - pyrgos

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πύργος
Transliteration
pyrgos (Key)
Pronunciation
poor'-gos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word ("burgh")
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:953,980

Strong’s Definitions

πύργος pýrgos, poor'-gos; apparently a primary word ("burgh"); a tower or castle:—tower.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G4444 in the following manner: tower (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G4444 in the following manner: tower (4x).
  1. a tower

  2. a fortified structure rising to a considerable height, to repel a hostile attack or to enable a watchman to see in every direction

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πύργος pýrgos, poor'-gos; apparently a primary word ("burgh"); a tower or castle:—tower.
STRONGS G4444:
πύργος, πύργου, (akin to German Burg, anciently Purg; (yet cf. Curtius, § 413)), as in Greek writings from Homer down, a tower; a fortified structure rising to a considerable height, to repel a hostile attack or to enable a watchman to see in every direction. The πύργος ἐν τῷ Σιλωάμ ((which see)) seems to designate a tower in the walls of Jerusalem near the fountain of Siloam, Luke 13:4; the tower occupied by the keepers of a vineyard is spoken of in Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1 (after Isaiah 5:2); a tower-shaped building as a safe and convenient dwelling, Luke 14:28.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
5:2
Matthew
21:33
Mark
12:1
Luke
13:4; 14:28

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4444 matches the Greek πύργος (pyrgos),
which occurs 50 times in 46 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 -

Then they journeyed from Bethel; and there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and Rachel gave birth, and she [fn]suffered severely in her labor.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - So he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I return safely, I will tear down this tower.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - And he tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:46 -

Then all the lords of the tower of Shechem heard of it, and they entered the inner chamber of the [fn]temple of El-berith.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47 - And it was told to Abimelech that all the lords of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand men and women.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But there was a strong tower in the center of the city, and all the men and women with all the lords of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up on the roof of the tower.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:52 - So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 -

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the [fn]company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a [fn]company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - And the sons of Israel [fn]did things secretly which were not right against Yahweh their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25 -

Now Azmaveth the son of Adiel was over the king’s storehouses.

And Jonathan the son of Uzziah was over the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages and in the towers.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still [fn]ours because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and succeeded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:9 - Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the corner buttress and strengthened them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:10 - He also built towers in the wilderness and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the [fn]Shephelah and in the plain. He also had plowmen and vinedressers in the hill country and the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15 - In Jerusalem he also made devices of war devised by skillful designers to be on the towers and on the corners for the purpose of shooting arrows and great stones. Hence his [fn]fame spread afar, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:4 - Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - And he strengthened himself and rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down and [fn]erected towers on it, and built another outside wall and strengthened the [fn]Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in great number.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:1 -

Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brothers the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they set it apart as holy and made its doors stand. And they set apart as holy [fn]the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:11 - Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired [fn]another section and the Tower of Furnaces.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:19 - Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, the official of Mizpah, repaired another section in front of the ascent of the armory at the Angle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - Palal the son of Uzai made repairs in front of the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:26 - The temple servants living in Ophel made repairs as far as the front of the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - After [fn]them the Tekoites repaired another section in front of the great projecting tower and as far as the wall of Ophel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:38 -

The second [fn]choir proceeded to the [fn]left, while I followed them with half of the people on the wall, above the Tower of Furnaces, to the Broad Wall,

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:39 - and above the Gate of Ephraim, by the Old Gate, by the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stood at the Gate of the Guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:12 -

Walk about Zion and go around her;

Count her towers;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:3 -

For You have been a refuge for me,

A tower of strength before the enemy.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 -

“Your neck is like the tower of David,

Built [fn]with rows of stones

On which are hung one thousand shields,

All the small shields of the mighty men.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 -

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim;

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,

Which faces toward Damascus.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 -

[fn]I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers;

Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:15 -

Against every lofty tower,

Against every fortified wall,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:2 -

He dug it all around, removed its stones,

And planted it with [fn]the choicest vine.

And He built a tower in the middle of it

And also hewed out a [fn]wine vat in it;

Then He hoped for it to produce good grapes,

But it produced only [fn]worthless ones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:10 -

“The bricks have fallen down,

But we will rebuild with cut stones;

The sycamores have been cut in pieces,

But we will replace them with cedars.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:9 -

“Is not Calno like Carchemish,

Or Hamath like Arpad,

Or Samaria like Damascus?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:3 -

And I will camp against you [fn]encircling you,

And I will fortify siegeworks against you,

And I will raise up fortifications against you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:25 - And it will be that on every lofty mountain and on every lifted up hill there will be [fn]streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:38 -

“Behold, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - ‘They will make the walls of Tyre a ruin and pull down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - “The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his swords he will tear down your towers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - “The sons of Arvad and your military force were on your walls, all around, and the [fn]Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their small shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:8 -

“And as for you, [fn]tower of the flock,

[fn]Hill of the daughter of Zion,

To you it will come

Even the former dominion will come,

The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:10 -

All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but [fn]Jerusalem will rise and inhabit its site from Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

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