Strong's Concordance pulé: a gate Original Word: πύλη, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: pulé Phonetic Spelling: (poo'-lay) Short Definition: a door, gate Definition: a gate. HELPS Word-studies 4439 pýlē (a feminine noun) – a large door; an entrance-gate to a city or fortress; a door-gate. 4439 /pýlē ("a door-gate") typically refers to the exit people go out, i.e. focusing on what proceeds out of it. ["Gates" in antiquity generally represent authority/power.] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4439: πύληπύλη, πύλης, ἡ (perhaps feminine of πόλος (cf. English pole i. e. axis) from the root πελῶ, to turn (Curtius, p. 715)), from Homer down; the Sept. very often for שַׁעַר, occasionally for דְּלֵת, sometimes for פֶּתַח; a gate (of the larger sort, in the wall either of a city or a palace; Thomas Magister (p. 292, 4) πύλαι ἐπί τείχους. θύραι ἐπί οἰκίας): of a town, Luke 7:12; Acts 9:24; Acts 16:13 L T Tr WH; Hebrews 13:12; of the temple, Acts 3:10; in the wall of a prison, Acts 12:10; πύλαι ᾅδου, the gates of Hades (likened to a vast prison; hence, the 'keys' of Hades, Revelation 1:18), Matthew 16:18 (on which see κατισχύω); Wis. 16:13; 3Macc. 5:51, and often by secular writings; see Grimm on 3Macc. 5:51. in figurative discourse equivalent to access or entrance into any state: Matthew 7:13{a},13{b} R G T brackets Tr WH marginal reading, 14 R G L brackets T brackets Tr WH; Luke 13:24 R L marginal reading (On its omission see προβατικός.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance a gate, porchApparently a primary word; a gate, i.e. The leaf or wing of a folding entrance (literally or figuratively) -- gate. Forms and Transliterations πυλαι πύλαι πύλαις πυλας πύλας πύλει πυλη πύλη πύλῃ πυλην πύλην πυλης πύλης πυλών pulai pulas pule pulē pulen pulēn pules pulēs pylai pýlai pylas pýlas pyle pylē pýle pýlē pýlei pýlēi pylen pylēn pýlen pýlēn pyles pylēs pýles pýlēsLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 443910 Occurrences πύλαι — 1 Occ. πύλας — 1 Occ. πύλη — 4 Occ. πύλην — 1 Occ. πύλης — 3 Occ. Matthew 7:13 N-GFS GRK: τῆς στενῆς πύλης ὅτι πλατεῖα NAS: the narrow gate; for the gate is wide KJV: at the strait gate: for wide INT: the narrow gate for wide Matthew 7:13 Noun-NFS Matthew 7:14 N-NFS Matthew 16:18 N-NFP Luke 7:12 N-DFS Acts 3:10 N-DFS Acts 9:24 N-AFP Acts 12:10 N-AFS Acts 16:13 N-GFS Hebrews 13:12 N-GFS |
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