Lexicon Magadan: Magadan, an unidentified place near the Sea of Galilee Original Word: Μαγδαλά, ἡPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Magadan Phonetic Spelling: (mag-dal-ah') Short Definition: Magdala Definition: Magdala, Magadan, a proper name. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation DefinitionMagadan, an unidentified place near the Sea of Galilee NASB TranslationMagadan (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3093: ΜαγαδάνΜαγαδάν, see the following word. STRONGS NT 3093: ΜαγδαλάΜαγδαλά, a place on the western shore of the Lake of Galilee, about three miles distant from Tiberius toward the north; according to the not improbable conjecture of Gesenius (Thesaurus, i., p. 267) identical with מִגְדַל־אֵל (i. e. tower of God), a fortified city of the tribe of Naphtali (Joshua 19:38); in the Jerus. Talmud מגדל (Magdal or Migdal); now Medschel or Medjdel, a wretched Mohammedan village with the ruins of an ancient tower (see Winers RWB, under the word; Robinson, Palest. ii., p. 396f; Arnold in Herzog viii., p. 661; Kneucker in Schenkel 4:p. 84; (Hackett in B. D., under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i., 571f)): Matthew 15:39 R G, with the variant reading (adopted by L T Tr WH (cf. WH's Appendix, p. 160)) Μαγαδάν, Vulg.Magedan (Syriac wdGM []); if either of these forms was the one used by the Evangelist it could very easily have been changed by the copyists into the more familiar name Μαγδαλά.
Strong's Magdala. Of Chaldee origin (compare migdal); the tower; Magdala (i.e. Migdala), a place in Palestine -- Magdala. see HEBREW migdal |
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