# H4026 מִגְדָּל

מִגְדָּל (migdâl), Strong’s H4026: a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers KJV: castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following…

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*migdâl* — a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers

KJV: castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.

Derived from [גָּדַל gâdal](https://besorah.bible/word/H1431) (to be)

Occurs 49 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מִגְדָּל n.m. tower
- 1 tower
- 2 elevated stage, pulpit of wood
- 3 raised bed

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=4) — They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for…
- [Genesis 11:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=5) — The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- [Judges 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=9) — He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
- [Judges 8:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=17) — He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
- [Judges 9:46](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=46) — When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
- [Judges 9:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=47) — Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
- [Judges 9:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=49) — All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and…
- [Judges 9:51](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=51) — But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in…
- [Judges 9:52](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=52) — Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
- [2 Kings 9:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/9?v=17) — Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a…