noun · masculine
purgos
Strong’sG4444
a tower, fortified structure
stem purg-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πύργος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for מִגְדָּל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4444 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpoor'-gos
a tower or castle
Fromapparently a primary word ("burgh");
King Jamestower.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
tower, especially such as were attached to the walls of a city, Refs 8th c.BC+: in plural, city walls or ramparts with their towers, Refs 8th c.BC+
b movable tower for storming towns, Refs 5th c.BC+
c tower on the back of war-elephants, Refs 2nd c.AD+
d Ζανὸς π., Refs 4th c.BC+ name for the central fire of the universe, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, tower of defence, τοῖος.. σφιν π. ἀπώλεο, of Ajax, Refs 8th c.BC+; θανάτων δ᾽ ἐμᾷ χώρᾳ π. ἀνέστα a tower of defence from deaths, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 the part of a house (probably a separate building) in which the women lived and worked, αἱ ἄλλαι θεράπαιναι ἐν τῷ π. ἦσαν, οὗπερ διαιτῶνται Refs 4th c.BC+ in her tower, Refs 3rd c.AD+; of the workman's hut of Timon the misanthrope (which also became his tomb,Refs 2nd c.AD+; outbuildings, especially if used in industry, LXX+3rd c.BC+; π. ἐν ᾧ βαφεῖον καὶ ἕτερα χρηστήρια Refs 1st c.AD+
II part of an army drawn up in close order, column, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 at Teos, a division of the people, Refs
III dice-box, Refs 6th c.AD+; cf. Latin pyrgus.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | purgos1×πύργος | purgois |
| object accusative | purgon3×πύργον | purgoin |
| direct address vocative | purgor | purgoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | purgou | purgoiu |
| to, for dative | purgo | purgoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
purgo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
purgos“tower”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 13:4… tois dekaoktō epi hoin piptata tos purgos en to Silōam kai apoktenata autoin, …… eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do …
purgon“watchtower”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 21:33“watchtower”… orussata en auto lēnan kai oikodomata purgon, kai ekdōeta auton geōrgoi, kai apodēmata.… around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to …
Mark 12:1… fragmon kai orussata hupolēniem kai oikodomata purgon, kai ekdōeta auton geōrgoi, kai apodēmata.… a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to …
Luke 14:28tinos gar ek vu thelarōntos purgon oikodomara ouchi prōtem kathizarantos psēfizatō tan …… of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and …