noun · feminine
pulas
Strong’sG4439
a door, gate
stem pul-10 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books6 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πύλη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly and very freq. for שַׁעַר sometimes for דֶּלֶת, פֶּתַח;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4439 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpoo'-lay
a gate, i.e. the leaf or wing of a folding entrance (literally or figuratively)
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamesgate.
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
properly one wing of a pair of double gates, ὀλίγον τι παρακλίναντες τὴν ἑτέρην π. Refs 5th c.BC+: mostly in plural, gates of a town (whereas θύρα = house-door), Σκαιαὶ π. Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄνεσάν τε π. καὶ ἀπῶσαν ὀχῆαςRefs 5th c.BC+: plural of several gates, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐν πύλαις in or at the gates, Refs; ἐπὶ ταῖς πύλαισιν, οὗ τὸ τάριχος ὤνιον Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in Trag. sometimes of the house-door, δωμάτων πύλαι Refs 4th c.BC+; γυναικείους π. gate or door leading to the women's apartments,Refs 5th c.BC+: also in singular,Refs; of the door of a tent, Refs
3 πύλαι Ἀΐδαο the gates of the nether world, periphrasticfor hell, NT+8th c.BC+
4 custom-house, Refs 2nd c.BC+; τετελώνηται διὰ πύλης has paid the customs, Refs 3rd c.AD+; τὸ σύμβολον τῆς ἱερᾶς Συηνιτικῆς π. Refs 1st c.BC+; μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς π. Σοήνης Refs 2nd c.AD+
II generally, entrance, orifice, ἀμφὶ πύλας ἰσθμοῖο Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡλίου πύλαι, Refs 4th c.BC+; portal fissure of the liver, π. καὶ δοχαὶ χολῆς Refs 5th c.BC+; portal vein of the liver, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.b plural, of the carceres in the circus, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.c metaphorically, πύλας ὕμνων ἀναπιτνάμεν Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 entrance into a country through mountains, pass, Refs 5th c.BC+, the Gates of Greece, Refs: of other passes, π. τῆς Κιλικίας καὶ τῆς Συρίας Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ Κάσπιαι π. Refs 1st c.BC+; Ἀμανίδες π. Refs 2nd c.AD+: these passes were sometimes really barred by gates, Refs 5th c.BC+; Πέλοπος νάσου θεόδματοι πRefs 1st c.AD+
II.3 of narrow straits, by which one enters a broad sea, Πύλαι Γαδειρίδες the Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ αὐταῖς στενοπόροις λίμνης π., of the Thracian Bosporus, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐν πύλαις, of the Euripus, Refs 5th 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 | pulas2×πύλη | pulais1×πύλαι |
| object accusative | pulan1×πύλην | pulain1×πύλας |
| direct address vocative | pular | pulair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pulau3×πύλης | pulaiu |
| to, for dative | pula2×πύλῃ | pulai |
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
pula 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
pulas“gate”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 7:13… tau stenau pulau; hoti plateias tas pulas kai euruchōras tas hodas tas apagarōntas …… narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that …
Matthew 7:14hoti stenas tas pulas kai thliborēntas tas hodas tas apagarōntas …But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads …
pulan“gate”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 12:10… fulakan kai deuteran erchala epi tan pulan tan sidērouan tan ferarōntan eis tan …… guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened …
pulau“gate”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Matthew 7:13Eiserchavar dia tau stenau pulau; hoti plateias tas pulas kai euruchōras …Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and …
Acts 16:13… hēmera teiu sabbateiu exerchana exō tau pulau para potamon hou nomizane proseuchan arō, …… Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was …
Hebrews 13:12… idieu haimeu ton laon, exō tau pulau paschata.… Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His …
pula“gate”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 7:12hōs de engizata ta pula tau polau, kai idou ekkomizote thnēskarēntos …As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being …
Acts 3:10… tan eleēmosunan kathorōntos epi ta Hōraia Pula teu hiereu, kai pimplēila thambeu kai …… to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were …
pulais“gates”subjectnominative plural1×
Matthew 16:18… petra oikodomami mu tan ekklēsan, kai pulais hadou ouk katischuali autau;… will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against …
pulain“gates”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 9:24… epiboulas autoiu. paratērole de kai tain pulain hēmerau tē kai nuktau hopōs auton …… and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.