πύργος
tower
‘tower’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G4444 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“tower” is the headline sense of the Greek noun πυργος (pýrgos). The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. It clusters heavily in Luke, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Matthew 21:33, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4444 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Tower 4×
- American Standard Version: Tower 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tower 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tower 2×, Watchtower 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4444 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4444 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4444 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4444 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a tower
- a fortified structure rising to a considerable height…
Word origin
Origin: "apparently a primary word ("burgh")"
Apparently a primary word (burgh); a tower or castle : - tower.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4444 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πύργον pýrgon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 21:33 | 3 |
| πύργος pýrgos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 13:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4444, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πυργος appears 51 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 47 verses in 14 books.
- 51
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 47
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 11:4 πύργος
- Judges 8:9 πύργος
- 2 Kings 9:17 πύργος
- 1 Chronicles 27:25 πύργος
- 2 Chronicles 14:6 πύργος
- Ezra 13:1 πύργος
- Psalms 47:13 πύργος
- Song of Solomon 4:4 πύργος
- Isaiah 2:15 πύργος
- Jeremiah 38:38 πύργος
- Ezekiel 26:4 πύργος
- Daniel 4:22 πύργος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4444) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 11:4 πύργος They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 11:5 πύργος Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 11:8 πύργος So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- Genesis 35:16 πύργος They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
- Judges 8:9 πύργος He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
- Judges 8:17 πύργος He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
- Judges 9:46 πύργος When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
- Judges 9:47 πύργος It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
- Judges 9:49 πύργος All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- Judges 9:51 πύργος But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 9:52 πύργος Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
- 2 Kings 9:17 πύργος Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
- 2 Kings 17:9 πύργος The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
- 2 Kings 18:8 πύργος He struck the Philistines to Gaza and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
- 1 Chronicles 27:25 πύργος Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:
- 2 Chronicles 14:6 πύργος He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
- 2 Chronicles 26:9 πύργος 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 πύργος He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.
- 2 Chronicles 26:15 πύργος He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
- 2 Chronicles 27:4 πύργος Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 πύργος He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
- Ezra 13:1 πύργος
- Ezra 13:11 πύργος
- Ezra 13:19 πύργος
- Ezra 13:25 πύργος
- Ezra 13:26 πύργος
- Ezra 13:27 πύργος
- Ezra 22:38 πύργος
- Ezra 22:39 πύργος
- Psalms 47:13 πύργος
- Psalms 60:4 πύργος You have given a banner to those who fear you, That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
- Song of Solomon 4:4 πύργος Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand shields, All the shields of the mighty men.
- Song of Solomon 7:5 πύργος Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.
- Song of Solomon 8:10 πύργος I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, Then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
- Isaiah 2:15 πύργος For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,
- Isaiah 5:2 πύργος He dug it up, Gathered out its stones, Planted it with the choicest vine, Built a tower in its midst, And also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, But it yielded wild grapes.
- Isaiah 9:9 πύργος All the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
- Isaiah 10:9 πύργος Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus?
- Isaiah 29:3 πύργος I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against you.
- Isaiah 30:25 πύργος There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Jeremiah 38:38 πύργος
- Ezekiel 26:4 πύργος They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
- Ezekiel 26:9 πύργος He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
- Ezekiel 27:11 πύργος The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about, and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on your walls round about; they have perfected your beauty.
- Daniel 4:22 πύργος it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
- Micah 4:8 πύργος You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, To you it will come, Yes, the former dominion will come, The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 14:10 πύργος All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-presses.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4444) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
