Lexical Summary Magdala: Magadan, an unidentified place near the Sea of Galilee Original Word: ΜαγδαλάTransliteration: Magdala Phonetic Spelling: (mag-dal-ah') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Magadan, an unidentified place near the Sea of Galilee Meaning: Magadan -- an unidentified place near the Sea of Galilee Strong's Concordance Magdala. Of Chaldee origin (compare migdal); the tower; Magdala (i.e. Migdala), a place in Palestine -- Magdala. see HEBREW migdal Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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 [ |
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