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Koine Greek wordlink #52930

SR GNT Luke 14:28 πύργον (purgon) ‘of you_all wanting a tower to build not first’ Strongs=44440 Lemma=purgos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (2) of identical word form πύργον (N-AMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πύργον’ (N-AMS) is always and only glossed as ‘a tower’.

Mark 12:1 ‘a trough and built a tower and rented_out it’ SR GNT Mark 12:1 word 24

OET-LV: 12 And he _began to _be _speaking to _them in parables: A_man planted a_vineyard and put_ a_fence _around, and dug a_trough, and built a_tower, and rented _out it to_the_tenant _farmers, and travelled. (MRK_12:1)

OET-RV: 12 Then he started telling them some parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence and a moat around it and built a security tower. Then he rented it out and went off travelling. (MRK 12:1)

Mat 21:33 ‘a wine-press and built a tower and rented_out it’ SR GNT Mat 21:33 word 22

OET-LV: 33 Hear another parable: a_man was a_home _owner, who planted a_vineyard, and put_ a_fence _around to _it: and dug a_wine-press in it, and built a_tower, and rented_ it _out to _tenant _farmers, and travelled. (MAT_21:33)

OET-RV: 33 “Listen to another parable: A landowner planted a vineyard and fenced it, and he carved a wine-press in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to tenant farmers and moved away. (MAT 21:33)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘purgos’ have 2 different glosses: ‘a tower’, ‘tower’.

Greek words (1) other than πύργον (N-AMS) with a gloss related to ‘tower’

LUKE 13:4 πύργος (purgos) N-NMS ‘whom fell the tower in Silōam and’ SR GNT Luke 13:4 word 13

OET-LV: 4 Or those the eighteen on whom the tower in the Silōam fell and killed_ them _off, are _you _all _supposing that they became debtors beyond all the people which dwelling _in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim)? (LUK_13:4)

OET-RV: 4 What about those eighteen who were killed when the Siloam tower collapsed on them? Do you think they had bigger debts than all the people living in Yerushalem? (LUK 13:4)

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular