STRONGS G3093:
Μαγδαλά, 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.
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