ΠΥΛΩΝ, πυλων
PYLŌN, pylōn
Sounds Like: py-LOHN
Translations: gate, a gate, gateway, a gateway, door, a door
From the root: ΠΥΛΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a large gate, often one that serves as an entrance to a city, temple, or large building. It can also refer to a gateway or a portal. It is typically used in contexts describing access points or barriers.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4440 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:158
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:26
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 48:4
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 6:114
- Book 5 — 8:252, 8:304, 11:358
- Book 6 — 9:191
- Book 7 — 10:248
- Book 9 — 4:74
- Book 11 — 6:280
- Book 12 — 8:334
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 2:14, 4:46, 4:75, 6:8, 9:79
- Book Five — 2:8, 3:14, 5:17, 5:18, 13:43
- Book Six — 2:29, 2:58
- Book Seven — 6:36
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 22:108
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 11:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 6:9, 11:20, 12:12
- 1 Samuel — 17:52
- 2 Samuel — 18:24
- 1 Kings — 6:13
- 2 Kings — 23:8
- 1 Chronicles — 9:23, 9:26, 22:3, 26:1, 26:12
- Ezra (Beta) — 2:42
- Judith — 7:22, 13:11
- 4 Maccabees — 3:13
- Psalms — 9:14, 106:18, 147:2
- Psalms of Solomon — 16:2
- Wisdom — 6:14
- Isaiah — 62:10
- Jeremiah — 1:15, 17:24, 17:25
- Lamentations — 4:12
- Ezekiel — 40:18, 44:11
- Enoch — 9:2, 9:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΥΛΩΝ.
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.
- ΠΥΛΩΝΑ — gate, a gate, gateway, a gateway, porch, a porch
- ΠΥΛΩΝΑΣ — gates, gateways, portals
- ΠΥΛΩΝΕΣ — gates, a gate
- ΠΥΛΩΝΙ — to a gate, to a gateway, to a porch, to a vestibule
- ΠΥΛΩΝΟΣ — (of) gatehouse, (of) gateway, (of) porch, (of) vestibule, a gatehouse, a gateway, a porch, a vestibule
- ΠΥΛΩΝΩΝ — of gates, of gateways, of porches
- ΠΥΛΩΣΙ — gate, gateway, porch, entrance, door
- ΠΥΛΩΣΙΝ — gate, a gate, gateway, entrance
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