Word Study · Strong's G4444 · Greek

πύργος

pyrgos

poor'-gos

Strong's 1890 spelling: pýrgos

“a tower or castle”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a tower or castle

Rendered in the KJV as

tower.

4
occurrencesin the New Testament
3 of 27
New Testament bookswhere the word stands
2
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 4 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 2

πύργον3
πύργος1

How it is rendered · 2

a tower3
tower1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3
noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

N-ASM · 3
N-NSM · 1

All 4, in canonical order

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Where this word lives

Luke2 of 4 · 50%
Matthew1 of 4 · 25%
Mark1 of 4 · 25%

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Matthew1 occurrence

Matthew 21:33πύργονpurgonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singularListen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.here: a tower

Mark1 occurrence

Mark 12:1πύργονpurgonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singularThen Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.here: a tower

Luke2 occurrences

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