1. wall, city wall, fortification wall — A large defensive wall surrounding a city, as distinct from 'toichos' (a house wall). All nine NT occurrences refer to city walls or fortification walls, primarily the wall of New Jerusalem in Revelation. Cross-linguistic evidence is uniform: Spanish 'muro/muros,' Hindi 'divar/divaren,' Arabic 'sur/aswar,' Korean 'seongbyeok,' Swahili 'ukuta/kuta.' The two original clusters differ only in grammatical number (singular N-GNS/N-ANS/N-NNS vs plural N-NNP), not in semantic content. The word consistently denotes a large exterior protective wall structure throughout all occurrences. 9×
AR["أَسْوَار","السّورِ","سورٌ","سورَها","سورُ","سورِ","سورِها","سُورِ"]·ben["দেওয়ালে","প্রাচীর","প্রাচীরগুলি","প্রাচীরের"]·DE["Mauer","τείχους"]·EN["a-wall","wall","walls"]·FR["mur","muraille"]·heb["הַ-חוֹמָה","חוֹמַת","חוֹמָה","חוֹמָתָהּ","חוֹמוֹת"]·HI["दीवार","दीवार-का","दीवार-के","दीवारें"]·ID["tembok"]·IT["muro"]·jav["tembok","tembok-tembok","témbok"]·KO["성벽-을-통해","성벽들이","성벽을","성벽의","성벽이"]·PT["muro","muros"]·RU["стена","стену","стены"]·ES["muro","muro,","muros"]·SW["kuta","ukuta","ukuta,"]·TR["duvar","duvarları","duvarı","duvarın","duvarını"]·urd["دیوار","دیوار-کو","دیوار-کی","دیواریں"]
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τεῖχος, εος, τό, wall, especially city-wall, Ἰλιόφι κλυτὰ τείχεα Refs 8th c.BC+; of the embankment round the ships, τάφρος Δαναῶν καὶ τ. ὕπερθεν Refs 8th c.BC+; Κιμμέρια τ. earthworks, Refs 5th c.BC+; ξύλινον τεῖχος exceptionally, Oracle texts cited in Refs 5th c.BC+ uses this phrase for a funeral pile, “P.” 3.38); τ. χάλκεον Refs 8th c.BC+; τ. σιδηροῦν, τείχη χαλκᾶ καὶ ἀδαμάντινα, Refs 5th…