- πύργος
- πύργος, ου, ὁ (Hom.+ [a Nordic loanw.: PKretschmer, Glotta 22, ’34, 100ff]; loanw. in rabb.).① a tall structure used as a lookout, tower ὁ πύργος ἐν τῷ Σιλωάμ Lk 13:4 (Demetr. of Kallatis [200 B.C.]: 85 Fgm. 6 Jac. πεσόντος τοῦ πύργου πεσεῖν κ. αὐτάς [=25 young women]). Of towers such as are built in a vineyard for watchmen (BGU 650, 8 [60/61 A.D.]: Is 5:2) Mt 21:33; Mk 12:1; prob. also Lk 14:28 (but s. 2 below and s. C-HHunzinger, ZNW Beiheft 26, ’60, 211–17 [Gospel of Thomas]).—B 16:5 (scripture quot., presumably fr. En 89:56). In Hermas the Christian community is pictured as a tower (cp. SibOr 5, 424; Leutzsch, Hermas 410–12 n. 282) Hv 3; 4, 3, 4; Hs 8 and 9 (over 145 times).② a tower-shaped building, farm building (s. FPreisigke, Her 54, 1919, 93; EMeyer, Her. 55, 1920, 100; AAlt, ibid. 334–36; JHasebroek, Her 57, 1922, 621–23; PMeyer, Ztschr. für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 40, 1922, 207. Rejected by WCrönert, Gnomon 4, 1928, 80) so poss. Lk 14:28 (but s. 1 above).—DELG. M-M. TW. Spicq. Sv.
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