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πύργος

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
πύργος, ου, ὁ
Greek transliteration: 
pyrgos
Simplified transliteration: 
pyrgos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4444
GK Number: 
4788
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
4
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-2a
Gloss: 
tower, watchtower
Definition: 
a tower, Mt. 21:33; Mk. 12:1; Lk. 13:4; genr. a castle, palace, Lk. 14:28*

Greek-English Concordance for πύργος

Matthew 21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower (pyrgon | πύργον | acc sg masc). Then he leased it to tenants 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. He dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower (pyrgon | πύργον | acc sg masc); then he leased it out to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower (pyrgos | πύργος | nom sg masc) in Siloam fell and killed them — do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem?
Luke 14:28 “For which of you, wanting to build a tower (pyrgon | πύργον | acc sg masc), does not first sit down and calculate the cost, whether he has enough to bring it to completion;