ΠΥΛΑΙ, πυλαι
PYLAI, pylai
Sounds Like: PY-lai
Translations: gates, a gate
From the root: ΠΥΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a gate, typically a large entrance to a city, fortress, or building. In its plural form, it often refers to the collective gates of a city. It can be used literally for physical gates or metaphorically to represent access, power, or authority.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative; or Singular, Genitive or Dative
Strong’s number: G4439 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:40
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 11:3, 12:3, 12:13, 12:17, 17:3, 23:19
- Psalms — 23:7, 23:9
- Job — 38:17
- Isaiah — 14:31
- Jeremiah — 28:58
- Lamentations — 2:9
- Nahum — 2:7
- Matthew — 16:18
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 11:410
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 11:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 3:5
- 1 Chronicles — 9:18, 9:24
- 2 Chronicles — 8:5
- Nehemiah — 1:3, 2:3, 2:13, 2:17, 7:3, 13:19
- Psalms — 23:7, 23:9
- Job — 38:17
- Isaiah — 14:31, 60:11, 60:18
- Jeremiah — 14:2, 28:58
- Lamentations — 1:4, 2:9
- Ezekiel — 42:3, 48:31, 48:32, 48:33, 48:34
- Nahum — 2:7, 3:13
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 16:18
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
- 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
- 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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