Castle: A military fortress
(1 Chronicles 11:7) also probably a kind of tower used by
the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance
(1 Chronicles 6:54) Castles are also mentioned
(Genesis 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.
