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migdal

migdal noun: a fortified tower built in biblical times.

Noun

migdal (plural migdals)

  1. A fortified tower built in biblical times.
    • If we leave the citadels of walled cities hitherto studied out of consideration, because of the fact that they are planned to meet other contingencies, we find only one group of migdals which has been examined, though inadequately — the fortresses in the Negeb, knowledge of which we owe to Woolley...1924, Benjamin Wisner Bacon, The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
    • But there "was a migdal oz within the Ir, and there fled all the anashim and nashim. and all ba'alei haIr, and locked it after them, and got them up to the top of the migdal.2002, Dr. Phillip Goble, The Orthodox Jewish Bible (Shofetim 9:51), →ISBN, page 243

Forms of migdal

pluralmigdals

Origin of migdal

Borrowed from Hebrew מגדל (“tower”).

Questions about migdal

What does migdal mean?
Migdal means a fortified tower built in biblical times.
What part of speech is migdal?
Migdal is a noun.
What is the plural of migdal?
The plural of migdal is migdals.

Words near migdal in the dictionary

  1. migaloos
  2. migan
  3. migans
  4. migas
  5. migawd
  6. migdal
  7. Migdale
  8. migdals
  9. migdol
  10. migdols
  11. Migennes

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