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.
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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.)
