gate

Greek Noun Female

πύλη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX chiefly and very frequently for שַׁעַר sometimes for דֶּלֶת, פֶּתַח;] a gate: Luk.7:12, Act.9:24 12:10 16:13, Heb.13:12; ἡ Ὡραία Π. τ. ἱεροῦ, Act.3:10. Metaphorical, Mat.7:13-14; πύλαι ᾅδου (Wis.16:13, 3Ma.5:51, and cf. κλαῖς ᾅδου Rev.1:18): Mat.16:18. (AS)

gate

Greek Noun Female

πύλη [ῠ], ἡ, 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 ὀχῆας[Refs 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 π[Refs 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+]

Greek

Noun Feminine

a gate, i.e. the leaf or wing of a folding entrance (literally or figuratively); gate; apparently a primary word