castle Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
castle in Easton's Bible Dictionary
a military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The "castle" into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
castle in Smith's Bible Dictionary
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castle in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
CAS'TLE , in Acts 21:34, 2 Kgs 18:37; Acts 22:24; Acts 23:10, Ex 17:16, Jud 1:32, means "the fortress at the north-west corner of the temple in Jerusalem. It was called by Herod the Tower of Antonia, in honor of his patron, Mark Antony. The temple was a kind of citadel that guarded Jerusalem, and so the Tower of Antonia was a fortress that commanded the temple." n-Ayre.