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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: πύργος

(Strong's #4444 — Noun Masculine — purgos — poor'-gos )

is used of "a watchtower in a vineyard," Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1; probably, too, in Luke 14:28 (cp. Isaiah 5:2 ); in Luke 13:4 , of the "tower in Siloam," the modern Silwan, which is built on a steep escarpment of rock.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Tower'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​t/tower.html. 1940.
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