G4444 – purgos – πύργος tower

Strong’s ID:
G4444
Greek Word:
πύργος
Transliteration:
pyrgos / purgos
Pronunciation:
poor’-gos
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage Count:
4
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Find “purgos” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

apparently a primary word (“burgh”); a tower or castle:—tower.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) a tower
2) a fortified structure rising to a considerable height, to repel a hostile attack or to enable a watchman to see in every direction

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.