πύργος
pyrgos · tower
Greek word · Strong’s number G4444 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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pyrgos (πύργος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “tower”.
Watchtower.
How to say it
pyr·gos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A tall structure for keeping watch.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.
- Mark 12:1
And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.
- Luke 13:4
Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were debtors more than all the people who live in Jerusalem?
- Luke 14:28
For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see whether he has enough for completion?