Word

מִגְדּוֹל

Migdôwl · H4024 · Hebrew · proper noun · 7 occurrences

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Place

Migdolfirst named in Exodus 14:26 verses

Meanings

a tower

A relatively high structure made of stone, used for guarding the surrounding area and protecting against hostile forces from outside, associated with security and protection

Examples
2 Samuel 22:51 “He is a tower of salvation to His king, And shows favor to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever.”
Migdol

A location in eastern Egypt near the Sea of Reeds, close to Pi-Hahiroth, where the Israelites encamped before crossing the Sea of Reeds on their way from Egypt to Canaan

Examples
Exodus 14:2 “Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and camp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea.
Numbers 33:7 Then they journeyed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon; and they camped before Migdol.
Jeremiah 44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt, those who were living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and the land of Pathros, saying,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יְשׁוּעָהsalvation, deliverance 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 3
מִןfrom 2
בֵּיןbetween, among 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Buildings001003002001: מִגְדּוֹל denotes a tower, sharing its Buildings sense with the related architectural noun מִגְדָּל, reflected in its gloss 'tower.'
Names of Locations003001010: Migdol also names an Egyptian border town near which Israel camped during the Exodus, as in Exodus 14:2's "camp...between Migdol and the sea," placing it among place names.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4024. Migdol מִגְדּוֺל noun masculine tower, 2Sa 22:51 Qr (Kt מגדיל = Psalm 18:51…

H4024. Migdol
מִגְדּוֺל noun masculine tower, 2Sa 22:51 Qr (Kt מגדיל = Psalm 18:51 מַגְדִּל).
מִגְדֹּל proper name (מִגְדּוֺל only Jer 46:14) fortified city on the northeast border of Egypt Exo 14:2; Num 33:7; Jer 44:1; Jer 46:14; Eze 29:10; Eze 30:6; Coptic meschtôl (Champoll.L'Égypte sous les Pharaons ii. 79), Egyptian makθel EbGS 522.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Buildings1 occurrence Names of Locations6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0