2001 Translation

PYRGOI, pyrgoi

Sounds Like: PYR-goy

Translations: towers

From the root: ΠΥΡΓΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to tall, fortified structures, typically part of a city wall or a standalone building, used for defense or observation. It is the plural form of 'tower'. It can be used in sentences to describe multiple such structures, for example, 'the city's towers'.

Inflection: Nominative, Vocative, Masculine, Plural

Strong’s number: G4444 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 13:17
• 4 Maccabees — 13:6
• Song of Solomon — 8:10
• Isaiah — 30:25

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 14 — 4:61

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 8:7
• Book Five — 4:21, 4:46, 7:6
• Book Six — 8:27
• Book Seven — 8:36

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Tobit — 13:16, 13:16
• 1 Maccabees — 6:37
• 4 Maccabees — 13:6
• Song of Solomon — 8:10
• Isaiah — 30:25

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΥΡΓΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΜΕΤΑΠΥΡΓΙΑ — spaces between towers, intervals between towers, curtain walls
• ΠΥΓΟΝ — tower, a tower
• ΠΥΓΟΥ — of a tower, of the tower
• ΠΥΡΓΟ — tower, a tower, fortress, a fortress
• ΠΥΡΓΟΙΣ — to towers, in towers, with towers, by towers
• ΠΥΡΓΟΝ — tower, a tower
• ΠΥΡΓΟΣ — tower, a tower
• ΠΥΡΓΟΥ — of a tower, of the tower, a tower, the tower
• ΠΥΡΓΟΥΣ — towers, a tower
• ΠΥΡΓΟΥΣΔΕ — towers, and towers, but towers, moreover towers
• ΠΥΡΓΩ — (to) a tower, (to) the tower
• ΠΥΡΓΩΝ — of towers, towers
• ΠΥΡΓΩΤΗΝ — towered, furnished with towers, a towered (thing)

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