Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Tower
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Luke 14:28
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
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9 occurrences in 7 verses.
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Genesis
33 verses
Judges
97 verses
2 Samuel
22 verses
2 Kings
44 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Nehemiah
97 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Song of Solomon
32 verses
Isaiah
22 verses
Jeremiah
22 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Micah
11 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
22 verses
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מִגְדָּל
migdâl · mig-dawl'
34 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
Strong's KJV usage: castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.
Strong's first: Genesis 11:4Strong's last: Zechariah 14:10
Open full H4026 profile →πύργος
pýrgos · poor'-gos
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a tower or castle
Strong's KJV usage: :--tower.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 21:33Strong's last: Luke 14:28
Open full G4444 profile →מִגְדּוֹל
Migdôwl · mig-dole'
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
Migdol, a place in Egypt
Strong's KJV usage: Migdol, tower.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:51Strong's last: Ezekiel 30:6
Open full H4024 profile →מִשְׂגָּב
misgâb · mis-gawb'
3 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a cliff (or other lofty or inaccessible place); abstractly, altitude; figuratively, a refuge; Misgab, a place in Moab
Strong's KJV usage: defence, high fort (tower), refuge, Misgab.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:3Strong's last: Psalms 144:2
Open full H4869 profile →בָּחוֹן
bâchôwn · baw-khone'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
an assayer or metals
Strong's KJV usage: tower.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 6:27Strong's last: Jeremiah 6:27
Open full H969 profile →מָצוֹר
mâtsôwr · maw-tsore'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
Strong's KJV usage: besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Habakkuk 2:1Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:1
Open full H4692 profile →מִצְפֶּה
mitspeh · mits-peh'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
an observatory, especially for military purposes
Strong's KJV usage: watch tower.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 20:24Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 20:24
Open full H4707 profile →עֹפֶל
ʻôphel · o'-fel
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a tumor; also a mound, i.e. fortress
Strong's KJV usage: emerod, fort, strong hold, tower.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 5:24Strong's last: 2 Kings 5:24
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H4026
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
H4026
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
H4026
Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
H4026
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
H4026
Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
H4026
After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
H4026
And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
H4026
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
H4026
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
English meaning and historical usage.
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tower
TOW'ER, noun [Latin turris.]
1. A building, either round or square, raised to a considerable elevation and consisting of several stories. When towers are erected with other buildings, as they usually are, they rise above the main edifice. They are generally flat on the top, and thus differ from steeples or spires. Before the invention of guns, places were fortified with towers and attacked with movable towers mounted on wheels, which placed the besiegers on a level with the walls.
2. A citadel; a fortress. Psalms 61:3.
3. A high head dress.
4. High flight; elevation.
Tower bastion, in fortification, a small tower in the form of a bastion, with rooms or cells underneath for men and guns.
Tower of London, a citadel containing an arsenal. It is also a palace where the kings of England have sometimes lodged.
TOW'ER, verb intransitive To rise and fly high; to soar; to be lofty.
Sublime thoughts, which tower above the clouds.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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