Lexical Summary migdal or migdalah: a tower Original Word: מִגְדָּלTransliteration: migdal or migdalah Phonetic Spelling: (mig-dawl') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a tower Meaning: a tower, a rostrum, a, bed of flowers Strong's Concordance castle, flower, tower Also (in plural) feminine migdalah {mig-daw- law'}; from gadal; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers -- castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following. see HEBREW gadal Brown-Driver-Briggs H4026. migdal or migdalah מִגְדָּל noun masculine tower, Genesis 11:5 11t.; construct מִגְדַּל Judges 8:17 21t.; plural מִגְדָּלִים2 Chronicles 26:9 6t.; מִגְדָּלֶיהָ Psalm 48:12; Ezekiel 26:4; pluralf. מִגְדָּלוֺת2 Chronicles 32:5 2t.; construct מִגְדְּלוֺת Song of Solomon 5:13 (?); suffix מִגְדְּלֹתַיִךְ Ezekiel 26:9; 27:11; — 1 tower Genesis 11:4-5, Judges 8:9; 9:51 (twice in verse); 9:52 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 9:17; 17:9; 18:8; 1 Chronicles 27:25; 2 Chronicles 14:6; 26:9-10, 11; 27:4; 32:5; Nehemiah 3:25-26, 27; Isaiah 2:15; 30:25; 33:18; Ezekiel 26:4, 9; 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 Song of Solomon 4:4; an ivory tower 7:5; breasts 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 9:46-47, 49; and at Jerusalem, the tower of David Cant 4:4 (the arsenal), מֵאָה Nehemiah 3:1, חֲנַנְאֵל 3:1; 12:39; Jeremiah 31:38; Zechariah 14:10, תַּנּוּרִים Nehemiah 3:11; 12:38 (tower of the furnaces). 2 elevated stage, pulpit of wood Nehemiah 8:4. 3 raised bed "" עֲרוּגָה Song of Solomon 5:13, but ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Hi Bö De rightly read מְגַדְּלוֺת. |
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