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|strgr=[[apparently]] a [[primary]] [[word]] ("burgh"); a [[tower]] or [[castle]]: [[tower]]. | |strgr=[[apparently]] a [[primary]] [[word]] ("burgh"); a [[tower]] or [[castle]]: [[tower]]. | ||
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|txtha=πύργου, ὁ ([[akin]] to German Burg, [[anciently]] Purg; ([[yet]] cf. [[Curtius]], § 413)), as in Greek writings from [[Homer]] [[down]], a [[tower]]; a [[fortified]] [[structure]] [[rising]] to a [[considerable]] [[height]], to [[repel]] a [[hostile]] [[attack]] or to [[enable]] a [[watchman]] to [[see]] in [[every]] [[direction]]. The [[πύργος]] ἐν τῷ [[Σιλωάμ]] ([[which]] [[see]])) seems to [[designate]] a [[tower]] in the walls of [[Jerusalem]] [[near]] the [[fountain]] of Siloam, Luke 14:28. | |||
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