noun
thurōros
Strong’sG2377
a door-keeper, porter
stem thurōr-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 of 20 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.
θυρωρός, -οῦ, ὁ, ἡ
(< θύρα, + οὖρος, a guardian), [in LXX: IV Ki 7:11 (שׁוֹעֵר), Ez 44:11 (פְּקֻדָּה), II Ki 4:6, I Es 7*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2377 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthoo-ro-ros'
a gate- warden
Fromfrom G2374 and οὖρος (a watcher);
King Jamesthat kept the door, porter.
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
Refs 5th c.AD+ θυραϝωρός uncertain in Refs., Epic dialect θυραωρός (which see), ὁ, ἡ:— door-keeper, porter, NT+7th c.BC+:—also θυρουρός Refs 3rd c.BC+. (From θυρα-hoρϝος, compare οὖρος, ἐρύω (B): connected with ὠρέω by Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | feminine singular | masculine singular | feminine plural | masculine plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | thurōras1×θυρωρός | thurōros1×θυρωρὸς | thurōrais | thurōrois |
| object accusative | thurōran | thurōron | thurōrain | thurōroin |
| direct address vocative | thurōrar | thurōror | thurōrair | thurōroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | thurōrau | thurōrou | thurōraiu | thurōroiu |
| to, for dative | thurōra1×θυρωρῷ | thurōro1×θυρωρῷ | thurōrai | thurōroi |
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
thurōr 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
thurōras“doorkeeper”subjectnominative singular1×
John 18:17“doorkeeper”… oun to Petro tas paidiskas tas thurōras; Mē kai sis ek toiu mathētoiu …At this, the servant girl watching the door said to Peter, “Aren’t you also one of this man’s disciples?” “I am …
thurōra“doorkeeper”to, fordative singular1×
John 18:16… gnōstos tou archierevou kai legata ta thurōra kai eisagata ton Petron.… went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
thurōros“gatekeeper”subjectnominative singular1×
John 10:3houto tos thurōros anoigatō, kai teim probateim tau fōnau …The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and …
thurōro“doorkeeper”to, fordative singular1×
Mark 13:34… hekasto tem ergem autou, kai to thurōro enteleta hina grēgorateiō.… his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch.