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ΠΥΛΑΙΣ, πυλαις
PYLAIS, pylais
Sounds Like: PY-lais
Translations: gates, doors, entrances
From the root: ΠΥΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to gates or doors, often those of a city, temple, or house. It can also metaphorically refer to an entrance or access point. In ancient contexts, city gates were significant places for public gatherings, legal proceedings, and defense.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4439 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 16:1
- Esther — 8:12r
- Psalms — 9:15, 72:28
- Proverbs — 1:21, 8:3, 12:13, 22:22, 24:7, 31:31
- Song of Solomon — 7:5
- Job — 38:8
- Isaiah — 29:21, 38:10
- Jeremiah — 15:7, 17:19, 17:20, 17:21, 17:27, 22:4
- Haggai — 2:14
- Zechariah — 8:16
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 8:305
- Book 6 — 4:48
- Book 7 — 6:123, 10:257
- Book 8 — 3:96
- Book 9 — 7:146
- Book 13 — 8:243, 13:348
- Book 15 — 1:6
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 36:6
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 32:163
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 38:14
- 1 Kings — 22:10
- 2 Kings — 7:1
- 1 Chronicles — 9:22
- 2 Chronicles — 31:2
- Nehemiah — 6:1
- Esther — 8:12
- Judith — 1:3
- 1 Maccabees — 9:50, 13:33
- 3 Maccabees — 5:51
- Psalms — 9:15, 72:28
- Odes — 7:10
- Proverbs — 1:21, 8:3, 12:13, 22:22, 24:7, 29:41, 29:49
- Song of Solomon — 7:4
- Job — 38:8
- Isaiah — 29:21, 38:10
- Jeremiah — 15:7, 17:19, 17:20, 17:21, 17:27, 19:3, 22:2, 22:4, 51:6
- Amos — 5:10, 5:12, 5:15
- Haggai — 2:14
- Zechariah — 8:16
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
- 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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