Tower of Ivory
Tower of Ivory
( , mighdal hashen): Occurs only in Son 7:4. Cheyne would, not unreasonably, emend the text and read the tower of Shenir as a parallel to the tower of Lebanon in the same verse. If the reading tower of ivory is correct, the reference must be to some piece of furniture in the adornment of which ivory was much used, and when we compare the word mighdal here with its use for a pulpit in Neh 8:4, we can think only of a reminiscence of something of the nature of the throne of ivory made by Solomon (1Ki 10:18).