Noun pyrgos (tower) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Matthew

21: 33"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower (pyrgos). Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country.

Mark

12: 1Then he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower (pyrgos); then he leased it to tenants and went to another country.

Luke

13: 4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower (pyrgos) of Siloam fell on them - do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem?
14: 28For which of you, intending to build a tower (pyrgos), does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?