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Strong's #04026 - מִגְדָּלָה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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1) tower
1a) tower
1b) elevated stage, pulpit
1c) raised bed
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2054) ldc (גדל GDL) AC: Magnify CO: Rope AB: Magnificent: A cord is made by twisting fibers together, the larger and more numerous the fibers, the stronger the cord will be. Anything that is large or great in size or stature. [from: dc- from the twisting of sinew to make cords.] (eng: great - with the exchange and reversal of the r and l and the t and d)
V) ldc (גדל GDL) - Magnify: To increase in size or ones position of honor. KJV (115): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hitpael, Pual, Piel) magnify, great, grow, nourish - Strongs: H1431 (גָּדַל)
Nm) ldc (גדל GDL) - Grow: An increasing in size. KJV (4): grow, great - Strongs: H1432 (גָּדֵל)
bm) lidc (גדיל GDYL) - Tassel: Something that is made from twisted fibers. KJV (2): fringe, wreath - Strongs: H1434 (גָּדִל)
cm) lfdc (גדול GDWL) - Magnificent: Something with increased size, power or authority. KJV (529): great, high, loud, elder, mighty - Strongs: H1419 (גָּדֹל)
df1) elfdc (גדולה GDWLH) - Magnificence: An increase in size power or authority. KJV (12): greatness, great, majesty, dignity - Strongs: H1420 (גְּדוּלָּה)
gm) ldfc (גודל GWDL) - Magnificence: An increase in size power or authority. KJV (13): greatness, stout, stoutness - Strongs: H1433 (גֹּדֶל)
hm) ldcm (מגדל MGDL) - Tower: A place of great size. KJV (50): tower, castle, flower, pulpit - Strongs: H4026 (מִגְדָּלָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 tower Genesis 11:4,5; Judges 8:9; Judges 9:51 (twice in verse); Judges 9:52 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 9:17; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings 18:8; 1 Chronicles 27:25; 2 Chronicles 14:6; 2 Chronicles 26:9,10,11; 27:4; 32:5; Nehemiah 3:25,26,27; Isaiah 2:15; Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 33:18; Ezekiel 26:4,9; Ezekiel 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 Song of Solomon 7:5; breasts Song of Solomon 8:10. (compare MI22 מגדלתה, Sabean (more precisely Lihyânian) מגדלנהן, Eut, see DHM Epigr. Denkm. 4,1. 5). Special towers mentioned on Lebanon Song of Solomon 7:5, Penuel Judges 8:17, Shechem Judges 9:46,47,49; and at Jerusalem, the tower of David Song of Solomon 4:4 (the arsenal), מֵאָה Nehemiah 3:1, חֲנַנְאֵל Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 12:39; Jeremiah 31:38; Zechariah 14:10, תַּנּוּרִים Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 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 ᵐ5ᵑ9 Hi Bö De rightly read מְגַדְּלוֺת.
