noun · feminine
aulas
Strong’sG833
court-yard, fore-court, palace, house
stem aul-12 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
αὐλή refers to an open courtyard, an enclosed outdoor space such as a sheepfold 1. Strong's describes it as a yard, open to the wind 2, and LSJ likewise gives the sense of an open court before a house, or a steading for cattle 3. Dodson's gloss "court-yard, fore-court" fits this sense 4.
It also refers to the courtyard around which a house is built, the enclosed space within a dwelling, including the court of a temple 1. LSJ records the same later sense of a court or quadrangle round which a house is built, as well as the court of a temple 3.
Finally, the word can denote a dwelling or palace, the house itself 124. Strong's notes that by implication it can mean a mansion 2, and Dodson's gloss includes "palace" and "house" 4.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
αὐλή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for חָצֵר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G833 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidow-lay'
a yard (as open to the wind); by implication, a mansion
Fromfrom the same as G109;
King Jamescourt, (sheep-)fold, hall, palace.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
open court before the house, courtyard, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 steading for cattle, αὐλῆς ὑπεράλμενονRefs 8th c.BC+
II later, court or quadrangle, round which the house was built, Refs 5th c.BC+
III generally, court, hall, Ζηνὸς αὐ.Refs 8th c.BC+; court of a temple, ἱεροῦLXX+3rd c.BC+; any dwelling, abode, chamber, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; of a cave, Refs; ἀγρόνομοι αὐλαί homes of dwellers in the wild, Refs; later, country-house, Refs 1st c.BC+
IV ἡ αὐλή the Court, αὐλὰς θεραπεύεινRefs 4th c.BC+; οἱ περὶ τὴν αὐλήν the courtiers,Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aulas | aulais |
| object accusative | aulan6×αὐλὴν | aulain |
| direct address vocative | aular | aulair |
| of, belonging to genitive | aulau4×αὐλῆς | aulaiu |
| to, for dative | aula2×αὐλῇ | aulai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
aula is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
aulan“palace”objectaccusative singular6×
Matthew 26:3“palace”… tois presbuterois tou laou eis tan aulan tou archierevou tou legorōntou Kaiafou,… that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Mark 14:54… akolouthata auto heōs esō eis tan aulan tou archierevou kai ate sunkathorōntos meta …… at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he …
Luke 11:21“palace”… tos ischuros kathoplizorēntos fulassateiō tan heautou aulan, en eirēna atō teim huparcharōnteim autou;When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure.
John 10:1“pen”… eiserchorōntos dia tau thurau eis tan aulan teiu probateiu alla anabainarōntos allachothen ekeinos …… does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a …
John 18:15… kai suneiserchata to Iēso eis tan aulan tou archierevou,… also went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.
Revelation 11:2“court”kai tan aulan tan exōthen tou naou ekbalasar exōthen, …But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not …
aulau“courtyard”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Matthew 26:58… akolouthate auto apo makrothen heōs tau aulau tou archierevou, kai eisercharantos esō kathote …… a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. And he …
Mark 15:16… de stratiōtois apagala auton esō tau aulau, hem atō praitōriem, kai sunkalalō holan …… soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called …
Luke 22:55periaptarantoiu de purem en mese tau aulau kai sunkathizarantoiu kathote tos Petros mesos …… fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat …
John 10:16… echamō heim ouk atō ek tau aulau houtau; kakeineim datō min agara, kai …… sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as …
aula“courtyard”to, fordative singular2×
Matthew 26:69… de Petros kathote exō en ta aula; kai proserchata auto henas paidiskas legarōntas; …… Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up …
Mark 14:66… arōntou tou Petrou katō en ta aula erchotō henas taiu paidiskaiu tou archierevou,While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the servant girls …