UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: πυλών; -ῶνος

Related lemmas: πύλη

Sense 1: door, gate

Semantic entry: 7.48

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Parts and Areas of Buildings

Definition: doors or gates used to close off entranceways

Notes: πύλη[a] and πυλών[a] may refer to house doors and gates or to large doors and gates such as were used in a palace, temple, or in a city wall.|Note, however, that in RV ACT 14:13 · LV ACT 14:13 · Read together ACT 14:13 the reference may not be specifically to the gates as objects, but to the entranceway into the city.

Further resources: realia:3.14.1

LUK 16:20: RV LUK 16:20 · LV LUK 16:20 · Read together LUK 16:20

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OET-RV LUK 16:20

20 At the same time there was a poor beggar named Eleazar (Lazarus; Grk. Lazaros) who was covered in ulcers. He’d been carried to the rich man’s gate,

OET-LV LUK 16:20

20 And a_ certain _poor man by_the_name Lazaros, had _been _laid at the gate of _him, having _been _ulcerated

ACT 10:17: RV ACT 10:17 · LV ACT 10:17 · Read together ACT 10:17

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OET-RV ACT 10:17

17 Now Kefa was still there wondering what the vision was all about when the men sent by Kornelios had tracked down the tanner’s house and arrived outside.

OET-LV ACT 10:17

17 And while the Petros by himself was _thoroughly _perplexing, what wishfully might _be the vision that he _saw, see, the men which having _been _sent _out from the Kornaʸlios, having _inquired for _the house of_ the _Simōn, stood _by at the gate.

All 10 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: RV LUK 16:20 · LV LUK 16:20 · Read together LUK 16:20

ACT: RV ACT 10:17 · RV ACT 12:14 · RV ACT 14:13 · LV ACT 10:17 · LV ACT 12:14 · LV ACT 14:13 · Read together ACT 10:17 · Read together ACT 12:14 · Read together ACT 14:13

REV: RV REV 21:12–13 · RV REV 21:15 · RV REV 21:21 · RV REV 21:25 · RV REV 22:14 · LV REV 21:12–13 · LV REV 21:15 · LV REV 21:21 · LV REV 21:25 · LV REV 22:14 · Read together REV 21:12–13 · Read together REV 21:15 · Read together REV 21:21 · Read together REV 21:25 · Read together REV 22:14

Sense 2: gateway, entrance, vestibule

Semantic entry: 7.38

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Parts and Areas of Buildings

Definition: the area associated with the entrance into a house or building

Notes: The phrase τὰ πρὸς τὴν θύραν (see 7.39: θύρα) is essentially equivalent to πυλών[b]: συνήχθησαν πολλοὶ ὥστε μηκέτι χωρεῖν μηδὲ τὰ πρὸς τὴν θύραν ‘so many people came together that there was no room left, not even out in the entrance’ RV MRK 2:2 · LV MRK 2:2 · Read together MRK 2:2.

Further resources: realia:3.1.3

MAT 26:71: RV MAT 26:71 · LV MAT 26:71 · Read together MAT 26:71

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OET-RV MAT 26:71

71 Then he went out the gate, but someone else saw him and she told the others, “This man was with Yeshua from Nazaret.”

OET-LV MAT 26:71

71 And having _come _out to the gate, another saw him and she _is _saying to _the ones there:
This man was with Yaʸsous the from _Nazaret.

ACT 12:13: RV ACT 12:13 · LV ACT 12:13 · Read together ACT 12:13

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OET-RV ACT 12:13

13 He knocked at the door in the fence and a servant girl named Rode came out to see who it was.

OET-LV ACT 12:13

13 And of _him having _knocked the door of _the gate, a_servant _girl by_the_name Ɽodaʸ approached to _answer.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

πυλών

Form 1

Sense 1: door, gate

Sense 2: gateway, entrance, vestibule