Word

πυλών

pylṓn · G4440 · Greek · 18 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

City gateCity fortifications281 verses
Gate or gateway to house or building complexHouse, permanent dwelling54 verses

Meanings

door, gate

Doors or gates used to close off entranceways

Examples
Luke 16:20 “And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
Acts 10:17 Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked directions to Simon’s house, and they appeared at the gate;
Acts 12:14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, because of her joy she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
gateway, entrance, vestibule

The area associated with the entrance into a house or building

Examples
Matthew 26:71 When he had gone out to the gateway, another slave woman saw him and said to those who were there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
Acts 12:13 When he knocked at the door of the gate, a slave woman named Rhoda came to answer.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 3

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

6 occurrences in 2 groups

τρεῖςthree 4
δώδεκαtwelve 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κλείωto shut 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἔχωto have 1
μετρέωto measure 1
ἀνοίγωto open 1

What it is said to bePredicate

5 occurrences in 5 groups

βοῤῥᾶςnorth 1
δυσμήwest 1
μαργαρίτηςpearl 1
νότοςsouth 1
ἀνατολήeast, rising 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἄγγελοςangel, messenger 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 4 groups

ἐπίon 5
εἰςto 2
πρόbefore 2
πρόςto, toward, with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἕκαστοςeach 1
θύραdoor 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

שַׁעַר shaʻar · H8179 · gate, town: שַׁעַר (shaʻar, H8179) is the standard Hebrew term for gate/gateway, serving as the direct semantic equivalent across both urban architectural contexts (city gates) and building entrances; πυλών (pylṓn, G4440) functions as its Greek counterpart with the same core denotation of a gate-way or portal structure.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Gateway, entrance, vestibule7.38: The noun denotes the entryway or vestibule of a building. Matthew recounts that during Peter's denial, “he had gone out to the gateway, another slave woman saw him and said to those who were there, ‘This man was with Jesus of Nazareth’” (Matthew 26:71).
Door, gate7.48: The same noun is also used of a house or city gate more generally. Jesus describes the poor man Lazarus, “laid at his gate, covered with sores” (Luke 16:20).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πύλη pýlē · G4439 · door, gate, death · 10×πυλώνpylṓn · G4440

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πυλῶνος, ὁ (πύλη) (Aristotle, Polybius, others), the Sept. often for פֶּתַח, sometimes…

πυλῶνος, ὁ (πύλη) (Aristotle, Polybius, others), the Sept. often for פֶּתַח, sometimes for שַׁעַר;
1. a large gate: of a palace, Lk 16:20; of a house, Acts 10:17; plural (of the gates of a city), Acts 14:13; Rev 21:12, Rev 21:13, Rev 21:15, Rev 21:21, Rev 21:25; Rev 22:14.
2. the anterior part of a house, into which one enters through the gate, porch: Mt 26:71 (cf. 69 and 75); Acts 12:14; hence, ἡ θύρα τοῦ πυλῶνος, Acts 12:13.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Parts and Areas of Buildings18 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0