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# מִגְדּוֹל

Biblical Hebrew

**tower** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tower [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5d2_5b0_5d3_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִגְדּוֹל: n.m. tower [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5d2_5b0_5d3_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. tower, 2 S 22:51 Qr (Kt מגדיל = ψ 18:51 מַגְדִּל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the tower (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.51/#tree)

מִגְדּ֖וֹל יְשׁוּע֣וֹת מַלְכּ֑וֹ וְעֹֽשֶׂה־חֶ֧סֶד לִמְשִׁיח֛וֹ לְדָוִ֥ד וּלְזַרְע֖וֹ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* the.tower the.salvation(s) his.king his and \[he.is\].doing covenant.loyalty to his anointed to David and to offspring his until perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* A tower of salvation is He to His king; and showeth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5d2_5b0_5d3_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5d2_5b0_5d3_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).