Door, doorway
Human-made Things in the Bible
The door was the entranceway into a building or structure or the panel that covered that entranceway. Doors were normally made of wood. To one edge along the length of the door was attached a wooden pole which extended slightly past the top and bottom edge of the door. The protruding ends of this pole were sharpened or rounded and set into sockets or holes cut into the stone lintel and threshold, thus allowing the door to swing open and shut. Sometimes the door panel was hung on hinges made usually of leather, sometimes of metal.
In the Bible
The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used
דַּל, דֶּלֶת dal, dalah, deleth · 4 verses
סַף saf · 14 verses
ספף safaf (verb) · 1 verse
פֶּתַח pethach · 119 verses
תְּרַע tra‘ · 1 verse
θύρα thura · 33 verses
θύρωμα thurōma · 2 verses
θυρωρός thurōros · 3 verses
θυρόω thuroō (verb) · 1 verse
Also in House, permanent dwelling
Sources
Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema