STRONGS NUMBER H4026


Word Summary
migdal or migdalah: a tower
Original Word: מִגְדָּל
Transliteration: 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 מִגְדָּלnoun masculine tower, Genesis 11:5 11t.; construct מִגְדַּלJudges 8:17 21t.; plural מִגְדָּלִים2 Chronicles 26:9 6t.; מִגְדָּלֶיהָPsalm 48:12; Ezekiel 26:4; pluralf. מִגְדָּלוֺת2 Chronicles 32:5 2t.; construct מִגְדְּלוֺתSong of Solomon 5:13 (?); suffix מִגְדְּלֹתַיִךְEzekiel 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), מֵאָהNehemiah 3:1, חֲנַנְאֵל3:1; 12:39; Jeremiah 31:38; Zechariah 14:10, תַּנּוּרִיםNehemiah 3:11; 12:38 (tower of the furnaces).

2 elevated stage, pulpit of wood Nehemiah 8:4.

3 raised bed "" עֲרוּגָהSong of Solomon 5:13, but ᵑ9 ᵐ5‎ Hi Bö De rightly read מְגַדְּלוֺת‎.