noun · masculine
purgos
Greekπύργος (purgos)
Strong’sG4444
a tower, fortified structure
stem purg-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
purgos“tower”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 13:4“tower”ē ekeinois tois dekaoktō epi hoin piptata tos purgos en to Silōam kai apokteinata autoin, dokavō hoti autois ofeiletois ginela para pantoin toin anthrōpoin toin katoikarōtoin Ierousalēm?Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
purgon“watchtower”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 21:33“watchtower”Allan parabolan akouavar. Anthrōpos ate oikodespotos hotinos futeuata ampelōnon kai fragmon auto peritithata kai orussata en auto lēnan kai oikodomata purgon, kai ekdōeta auton geōrgoi, kai apodēmata.Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Mark 12:1“watchtower”Kai archeta autoi en parabolai lalarō; Ampelōnon anthrōpos futeuata, kai peritithata fragmon kai orussata hupolēniem kai oikodomata purgon, kai ekdōeta auton geōrgoi, kai apodēmata.Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Luke 14:28“tower”tinos gar ek vu thelarōtos purgon oikodomara ouchi prōtem kathizaratos psēfizatō tan dapanan, ei echatō eis apartismon?Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?