מִגְדָּל
migdâl · mig-dawl'
a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
Lexicon
Derivation: also (in plural) feminine מִגְדָּלָה; from H1431 (גָּדַל);
a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
- a tower (from its size or height)
- by analogy, a rostrum
- figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to carry, to lift up › the doorway, the way in › authority, the one who leads
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to carry, to lift up of the doorway, the way in of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִגְדָּל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
48 occurrences · 48 OT · 0 NT · 38 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the tower5 · 12%
- of the tower5 · 12%
- tower5 · 12%
- the tower2 · 5%
- from the tower2 · 5%
- and towers2 · 5%
- towers2 · 5%
- the towers2 · 5%
- and a tower1 · 2%
- this tower1 · 2%
- unto the tower1 · 2%
- on the tower1 · 2%
- thereof, from the tower1 · 2%
- and in the castles1 · 2%
- to be on the towers1 · 2%
- to the towers1 · 2%
- of it; even unto the tower1 · 2%
- it, unto the tower1 · 2%
- of the wall, and the tower1 · 2%
- upon a pulpit1 · 2%
- from beyond the tower1 · 2%
- is like the tower1 · 2%
- flowers1 · 2%
- is as a tower1 · 2%
- is as the tower1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.