Straight Gate — Bible place

The street called “Straight” at Damascus (Acts 9:11) is “a long broad street, running from east to west, about a mile in length, and forming the principal thoroughfare in the city.” In Oriental towns streets are usually narrow and irregular and filthy (Ps. 18:42; Isa. 10:6). “It is remarkable,” says Porter, “that all the important cities of Palestine and Syria Samaria, Caesarea, Gerasa, Bozrah, Damascus, Palmyra, had their ‘straight streets’ running through the centre of the city, and lined with stately rows of columns. The most perfect now remaining are those of Palmyra and Gerasa, where long ranges of the columns still stand.”, Through Samaria, etc.

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Show passage in OET: ACT 9:11

OET-RV ACT 9:11

11 So the master told him, “Get up and go to Yehudah’ (Judas’; Grk. Yudas’) house in Straight Street where you’ll find a man named Sha’ul (Saul; Grk. Saulos /Saul) from Tarsos. He’s praying right now

OET-LV ACT 9:11

11 And the master said to him:
Having _risen _up, be _gone in the street which being _called Straight, and seek Saulos/(Shāʼūl) by_the_name from _Tarsos in the_house of _Youdas/(Yəhūdāh), because/for see, he _is _praying

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