2001 Translation

PYLĒ, pylē

Sounds Like: POO-lay

Translations: gate, a gate, door, a door, entrance, an entrance

From the root: ΠΥΛΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a gate, door, or entrance, typically a large one, such as the gate of a city or a large building. It can also metaphorically refer to a way or access point. It is commonly used in contexts describing entry or exit.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4439 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 48:2, 48:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Chronicles — 11:17
• 2 Esdras — 12:13, 12:15, 22:39
• Psalms — 117:20
• Jeremiah — 20:2, 44:13, 45:7, 46:3, 50:9
• Matthew — 7:14
• Luke — 7:12

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 1:34, 12:312
• Book 8 — 3:75
• Book 11 — 5:163
• Book 14 — 12:310

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Five — 5:16, 5:25, 5:27
• Book Six — 4:3, 5:23
• Book Seven — 5:36

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:13

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 11:2, 15:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 28:17
• Exodus — 27:16
• Joshua — 2:5, 2:7
• Judges — 16:2
• Ruth — 4:11
• 2 Samuel — 18:26, 19:8, 23:15, 23:16
• 2 Kings — 7:17, 7:18, 7:20, 11:6, 14:13, 23:8
• 1 Chronicles — 9:18, 11:17, 11:18
• 2 Chronicles — 23:5, 24:8
• Nehemiah — 2:13, 2:15
• Tobit — 11:16
• Psalms — 68:13, 117:20, 126:5
• Jeremiah — 20:2, 44:13, 45:7, 46:3, 50:9
• Ezekiel — 40:13, 40:20, 40:22, 40:23, 40:24, 40:27, 44:2, 46:1, 46:3, 48:31, 48:32, 48:33, 48:34
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 8:2, 8:6

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 4:2, 12:1, 12:2, 12:3, 12:6, 15:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 7:13, 7:14
• Luke — 7:12
• Acts — 3:10

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
• ΠΥΛΑΣ — gates
• ΠΥΛΑΣΚΑΙ — gates, a gate
• ΠΥΛΕ — gate, a gate, door, a door, entrance, a entrance
• ΠΥΛΕΣ — gates, doors, a gate, a door
• 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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