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Magdala

A city on the west side of the sea of Galilee, near Dalmanutha; Jesus, after the miracle of the seven loaves, being said by St. Magdala is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “tower; greatness.” This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type: Subject
Strong’s: G3093
Greek: Μαγδαλά · Magdalá
Name meaning: tower; greatness According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

Μαγδαλά

G3093

Transliteration: Magdalá
Language: Greek
Indexed occurrences: 1

Glosses

Magdala

Lexicon definition

the tower

Magdala (i.e. Migdala), a place in Palestine

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Magdala

tower; greatness

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

MAGDALA

a city on the west side of the sea of Galilee, near Dalmanutha; Jesus, after the miracle of the seven loaves, being said by St. Matthew to have gone by ship to the coasts of Magdala, Matt. xv, 39; and by St. Mark, to the parts of Dalmanutha,” Mark viii, 10. Mr. Buckingham came to a small village in this situation called Migdal, close to the edge of the lake, beneath a range of high cliffs, in which small grottoes are seen, with the remains of an old square tower, and some larger buildings, of rude construction, apparently of great antiquity. Migdol implies a tower, or fortress; and this place, from having this name particularly applied to it, was doubtless, like the Egyptian Migdol, one of considerable importance; and may be considered as the site of the Migdal of the Naphtalites, as well as the Magdala of the New Testament.

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