# מִגְדָּל (migdal)

Israeli respelling: mig-dal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4026. 44 Old Testament occurrences.

a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers

King James renderings: castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/migdal-h4026

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Genesis 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/5) — And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- [Judges 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/9) — And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
- [Judges 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/17) — And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
- [Judges 9:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/46) — And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
- [Judges 9:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/47) — And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
- [Judges 9:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/49) — And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon t…
- [Judges 9:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/51) — But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and ga…
- [Judges 9:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/52) — And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
- [2 Kings 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/17) — And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said,…
- [2 Kings 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/9) — And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all…
- [2 Kings 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/8) — He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
- [1 Chronicles 27:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/25) — And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, an…
- [2 Chronicles 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/7) — Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet befo…
- [2 Chronicles 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/9) — Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
- [2 Chronicles 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/10) — Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen a…
- [2 Chronicles 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/15) — And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones with…
- [2 Chronicles 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/27/4) — Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
- [2 Chronicles 32:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/5) — Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repa…
- [Nehemiah 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/1) — 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 do…
- [Nehemiah 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/11) — Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
- [Nehemiah 3:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/25) — 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 cour…
- [Nehemiah 3:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/26) — Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
- [Nehemiah 3:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/27) — After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
- [Nehemiah 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/4) — And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaia…
- [Nehemiah 12:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/38) — 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 bey…
- [Nehemiah 12:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/39) — 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…
- [Psalms 48:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/48/12) — Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
- [Psalms 61:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/61/3) — For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
- [Proverbs 18:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/10) — The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
- [Song of Solomon 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/4) — Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
- [Song of Solomon 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/13) — His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
- [Song of Solomon 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/7/4) — Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon w…
- [Song of Solomon 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/10) — I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
- [Isaiah 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/15) — And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
- [Isaiah 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/2) — And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and als…
- [Isaiah 30:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/25) — And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when…
- [Isaiah 33:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/18) — Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
- [Jeremiah 31:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/38) — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
- [Ezekiel 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/4) — And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a…
- [Ezekiel 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/9) — And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
- [Ezekiel 27:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/11) — The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy…
- [Micah 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/4/8) — And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shal…
- [Zechariah 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/10) — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from…