H4026 מִגְדָּל
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 50 KJV occurrences
מִגְדָּל
migdâl · mig-dawl'
Definition
a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
KJV Renderings
castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.
Derivation / Etymology
also (in plural) feminine מִגְדָּלָה; from H1431 (גָּדַל);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 50)
- Genesis 11:4And 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.
- Judges 9:47And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
- 2 Kings 9:17And 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?
- 2 Chronicles 26:10Also 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.
- Nehemiah 3:25Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
- Nehemiah 12:39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
- Song of Solomon 7:4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
- Isaiah 33:18Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?