ΠΥΛΑΣ, πυλας
PYLAS, pylas
Sounds Like: PY-las
Translations: gates
From the root: ΠΥΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to gates, an entrance, or a portal, typically those of a city, a house, or a temple. It is used to denote the physical barrier or opening that controls access to a place. In a sentence, it would function as the direct object of a verb, indicating something being done to or with gates.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4439 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 11:4
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:39
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 48:2
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 12:8, 23:19, 23:22
- Judith — 1:3, 1:4, 13:10
- 1 Maccabees — 4:57, 5:47, 12:48, 15:39
- Psalms — 23:7, 23:9, 86:2, 99:4, 106:16, 117:19
- Job — 3:10, 38:10, 41:6
- Wisdom — 16:13
- Sirach — 49:13
- Isaiah — 22:7, 22:8, 26:2, 54:12
- Jeremiah — 22:2
- Obadiah — 1:11, 1:13
- Acts of the Apostles — 9:24
- Epistle of Barnabas — 11:4
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 22:198
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 6:111, 6:113, 6:133, 11:270
- Book 5 — 8:247
- Book 6 — 13:273
- Book 7 — 3:61
- Book 8 — 14:374
- Book 9 — 4:57, 9:200, 11:230
- Book 10 — 1:15, 7:117
- Book 11 — 5:165, 8:327
- Book 12 — 5:246, 6:182, 7:317, 8:346
- Book 13 — 5:150, 6:192, 7:91, 7:92
- Book 15 — 11:411
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 15:19, 19:21, 19:26, 21:51
- Book Three — 9:51
- Book Four — 2:30, 3:84, 4:13, 4:50, 4:69, 5:45, 7:41, 9:68
- Book Five — 1:7, 3:2, 3:14, 5:15, 7:11
- Book Six — 3:15, 4:9, 4:17, 5:11
- Book Seven — 10:23, 10:29
Justin Martyr
Pseudo-Baruch
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Joshua — 6:26
- 2 Chronicles — 14:7, 23:4, 23:19
- Nehemiah — 2:8, 13:19, 13:22
- Judith — 1:4, 13:10
- 1 Maccabees — 4:38, 4:57, 5:47, 12:48
- 2 Maccabees — 10:36
- 3 Maccabees — 6:18
- Psalms — 23:7, 23:9, 86:2, 99:4, 106:16, 117:19
- Psalms of Solomon — 8:19
- Job — 3:10, 38:10, 41:5
- Wisdom — 16:13
- Sirach — 49:13
- Isaiah — 22:7, 22:8, 26:2, 54:12
- Ezekiel — 21:22, 26:10, 44:17
- Micah — 1:12, 5:1
- Obadiah — 1:11, 1:13
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 9:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΥΛΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΥ̓ΛΗΝ — gate, a gate, door, a door
- ΠΥΛΑΙ — gates, a gate
- ΠΥΛΑΙΣ — gates, doors, entrances
- ΠΥΛΑΣΚΑΙ — gates, a gate
- ΠΥΛΕ — gate, a gate, door, a door, entrance, a entrance
- ΠΥΛΕΣ — gates, doors, a gate, a door
- ΠΥΛΗ — gate, a gate, door, a door, entrance, an entrance
- ΠΥΛΗΝ — gate, a gate, entrance, a door
- ΠΥΛΗΣ — of a gate, of the gate, of a door, of the door
- ΠΥΛΙΔΩΝ — of small gates, of little gates, of gates
- ΠΥΛΙΣ — gates, a gate, of gates, to gates, for gates
- ΠΥΛΟΙΣ — to gates, to a gate, at gates, at a gate, by gates, by a gate
- ΠΥΛΩ — gate, a gate
- ΠΥΛ‾Η‾ — gate, a gate, door, a door
- ΤΑΣΠΥΛΑΣ — the gates, a gate
- ΤΩΝΠΥΛΩΝ — of the gates, of gates
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