Quick Definition
θύρα, ας, ἡ n.f. a door, opportunity
Strong's Definition
apparently a primary word (compare "door"); a portal or entrance (the opening or the closure, literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: door, gate
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | θυρεός · θυρίς · θυρωρός
7.49 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
door, gate the door to a house or building (often occurring in plural form and designating double doors or gates)
MAT 6:6 · MAT 24:33 · MAT 25:10 · MRK 13:29 · LUK 11:7 · LUK 13:24 · LUK 13:25 · LUK 13:25 · JHN 18:16 · JHN 20:19 · JHN 20:26 · ACT 3:2 · ACT 5:9 · ACT 5:19 · ACT 5:23 · ACT 12:6 · ACT 12:13 · ACT 14:27 · ACT 16:26 · ACT 16:27 · ACT 21:30 · 1CO 16:9 · 2CO 2:12 · COL 4:3 · JAS 5:9 · REV 3:8 · REV 3:20 · REV 3:20 · REV 4:1
7.39 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
entrance, entranceway, portal the entranceway into a building or structure In JHN 10:9 θύρα[b] is used figuratively to refer to Jesus as the means of access to salvation: ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ θύρα δἰ ἐμοῦ ἐάν τις εἰσέλθω σωθήσεται ‘I am the door; whoever comes in by me will be saved.’ In JHN 10:9 the emphasis is upon the door as a passageway and not as an object closing off an entrance. Literal translations of ‘I am the door’ may often lead to misinterpretation, since the term used for ‘door’ is likely to refer to a literal door rather than to the entranceway, thus suggesting that Jesus Christ functions primarily to prevent passage rather than making entrance possible.
MAT 27:60 · MRK 1:33 · MRK 2:2 · MRK 11:4 · MRK 15:46 · MRK 16:3 · JHN 10:1 · JHN 10:2 · JHN 10:7 · JHN 10:9 · ACT 5:9 · JAS 5:9
67.58 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After
Collocation: ἐπὶ θύραις · πρὸ θυρῶν
soon, very soon a point of time subsequent to another point of time and indicating imminence, that is to say, the subsequent event is regarded as almost begun
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θύρα, -as, ἡ, (fr. θύω to rush in, prop. that through which a rush is made; hence Germ. Thiir [Eng. door ; Curtius § 8197), [fr. Hom. down], Sept. for ΠῚ and na, sometimes also for 1j:w; α (house) door; [in plur. i. q. Lat. fores, folding doors; ef. W. 176 (166); B. 24 (21); ef. πύλη]; a. prop.: κλείειν etc. τὴν 6., Mt. vi. 3; LK. xiii. 25; pass., Mt. xxv. 10; Lk. xi. 7; Jn. xx. 19, 26; Acts xxi. 30; ἀνοίγειν, Acts y. 19; pass. Acts xvi. 26 sq.; κρούειν, Acts xii. 13; διὰ τῆς 6. Jn. x. 1 54. ; πρὸς τὴν θ., Mk. i. 33; xi. 4 [Tr WHom. τήν; cf. W. 123 (116)]; Acts ili. 2; τὰ πρὸς τὴν 6. the vestibule [so B. § 125, 9; al. the space or parts at (near) the door], Mk. li. 2; πρὸς τῇ 6. Jn. xviii. 16; ἐπὶ τῇ 6. Acts v. 9; πρὸ τῆς 6. Acts xii. 6; ἐπὶ τῶν θυρῶν, Acts v. 23 [RG πρό]. Ὁ. θύρα is used of any opening like a door, an entrance, way or passage into: ἡ θ. τοῦ μνημείου, of the tomb, Mt. xxvii. 60; xxviii. 2RG; Mk. xv. 46; xvi. 3, (Hom. Od. 9, 243; 12, 256; al.). c. in parable and metaph. we find a. ἡ θύρα τῶν προβάτων, the door through which the sheep go out and in, the name of him who brings salvation to those who follow his guidance, Jn. x. 7, 9; ef. Christ. Fr. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum opusce. p. 20 sqq-; (in Ignat. ad Philad. 9 Christ is called ἡ θύρα τοῦ πατρός, δι᾽ hs εἰσέρχονται ᾿Αβραὰμ.. - . καὶ of προφῆται; cf. Harnack on Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 48,3sq.). β. ‘anopen door’ is used of the opportunity of doing something : τῆς πίστεως, of getting faith, Acts xiv. 27; open to a teacher, i. e. the opportunity of teaching others, 2 Co. li. 12; Col. iv. 3; by a bold combination of metaph. and literal language, the phrase θύρα μεγάλη x. ἐνεργής [A. Va great door and effectual] is used of a large opportunity of teaching a great multitude the way of salvation, and one encouraging the hope of the most successful results: 1 Co. xvi. 9. γι. the door of the kingdom of heaven (likened to a palace) denotes the conditions which must be complied with in order to be received into the kingdom of God: Lk. xiii. 24 (for Rec. πύλης); power of entering, access into, God’s eternal kingdom, Rev. iii. 8 cf. 7, [but al. al.; add here Rey. iv. 1]. δ. he whose advent is just at hand is said ἐπὶ θύραις εἶναι, Mt. xxiv. 33; Mk. xiii. 29, and πρὸ θυρῶν ἑστηκέναι, Jas. v. 9. ε. ἑστηκὼς ἐπὶ τὴν θύραν k- κρούων is said of Christ seeking entrance into souls, and they who comply with his entreaty are said ἀνοίγειν τ. θύραν, Rey. ili. 20.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
θύρα thura 39x
a door, gate, Mt. 6:6; Mk. 1:33; an entrance, Mt. 27:60; in NT met. an opening, occasion, opportunity, Acts 14:27; 1 Cor. 16:9; meton. a medium or means of entrance, Jn. 10:7, 9
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
θύρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for פֶּתַח, also for דַּל, דֶּלֶת, etc.;]
a door: κλείειν (ἀποκ-) τὴν θ., Mt 6:6, Lk 13:25; pass., Mt 25:10, Lk 11:7, Jo 20:19, 26, Ac 21:30; ἀνοίγειν, Ac 5:19; pass., Ac 16:26, 27; κρούειν, Ac 12:13; διὰ τῆς θ., Jo 10:1, 2; πρὸς τὴν θ., Mk 1:33 11:4 (WH om. τήν), Ac 3:2; τὰ πρὸς τὴν θ., the space by the door, Mk 2:2; πρὸς τῇ θ., Jo 18:16; ἐπὶ τῇ θ, Ac 5:9; πρὸ τῆς θ., Ac 12:6; ἐπὶ τῶν θ., Ac 5:23; ἡ θ. τ. μνημείου, Mt 27:60, Mk 15:46 16:3. Metaph., of Christ, ἡ θ. τ. προβάτων, Jo 10:7, 9; of the Kingdom of Heaven, Lk 13:24; of opportunities, θ. πίστεως, Ac 14:27; θ. μεγάλη, I Co 16:9; θ. τ. λόγου, Col 4:3; θ. ἀνεῳγμένη (ἠνεῳγ-), II Co 2:12, Re 3:8 4:1; of Christ, ἑστηκὼς ἐπὶ τὴν θ. καὶ κρούων, Re 3:20; of his second coming, ἐπὶ θύραις εἶναι, Mt 24:33, Mk 13:29; πρὸ θυρῶν ἑστηκέναι, Ja 5:9.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
θύρα. For this common noun see P Petr II. το(2}}} (c. mid. iii/B.C.) γενομένου pov πρὸς τῆι θύραι τοῦ στρατηγίου, ‘‘when I had reached the door of the strategus’ office” (Ed.), P Ryl IL. 127% (A.p. 29) κοιμωμένου μου ἐπὶ τῆς θύρας οὗ καταγείνομαι οἴκου, ‘‘as I was sleeping at the door of the house which I inhabit” (Edd.), BGU II. 59778 (a.p. 75) μὴ ἀφέτωσαν τὴν θύραν, ἡνίκα κλιστὴ (1 κλειστὴ) ἦν. In P Petr II. 13(16)!8 (B.c. 258-3) ἀρθήτωσαν αἱ θύραι, the reference is to the raising of the sluice-gates of the canals: cf. τό. IIT. 44(3)8 ἀνοιχθήτω οὖν ἡ θύρα. In leases the restoration of existing doors and keys is frequently laid down as a condition, perhaps because doors were often detachable and might readily come to harm, e.g. P Oxy III. 50233 (A.D. 164) where the tenant is to deliver up certain buildings --αθαρὰ ἀπὸ κοπρίων Kal ds παρείληφεν θύρας καὶ κλεῖς πάντων τῶν τόπων, ‘free from filth and with the doors and keys received by her of all the premises” (Edd.): so 26. IV. 72923 (A.D. 137), WIII. 112724 (A.D. 183), 1128%° (A.D. 173) and P Strass I. 42"(a.D. 550) with the editor’s note. Other exx. of the word are P Tebt I. 4533 (B.c. 113) τὴν παρόδιον θύραν, “the street door,’’ P Oxy Χ. 12721? (a.D. 144) τὴν τοῦ πεσσοῦ θύραν, ‘the door of the terrace,” and 26. VI. 9032 (iv/A.D.) τὰς ἔξω θύρας, ‘‘the outside doors.” On the θύρα of Ac 3210, see ZNTW vii. p. 51 ff. For the ethnic use of θύρα on tombs see Ramsay in C. and B, ii. Ρ. 395 where reference is made to an inscr. on an altar found near the hot springs of Myrikion in Galatia, where a man erected to his wife τὸν βωμὸν kal τὴν θύραν, the word θύρα being added because ‘‘according to Phrygian ideas there were two necessary elements in the sepulchral monument ; and when there was no real door, the word at least was engraved on the altar to represent the actual entrance. The door was the passage of communication between the world of life and the world of death: on the altar the living placed the offerings due to the dead”’: cf. JHS v. (1884), p. 254. For the diminutive θύριον, see P Lond 1177248 (a.p. 113) (=III. p. 187) θύριον and P Tebt 1. 414°° (ii/A.D.) τὸν ξύλινον δίφρον καὶ τὸ θύριν (1 -ιον), “the wooden stool and the little door.” The verb θυρόω (cf. 1 Mace 457) is common, e.g. P Amh II. 5174 (B.c. 88) οἰκίαν .. . τεθυρωμένην : for θύρωμα (as in 2 Macc 14 a/.) see BGU IV. 1028* (ii/A.D.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
θύρα (thura) — door. θύρα [ῠ], Ionic dialect θύρη, ἡ, Ionic dialect genitive plural θυρέων [Refs 7th c.BC+]:— door, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently in plural of double or folding doors, θ. δικλίδες [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ δεξιὰ θ. the right valve, [Refs]; θ. μονόθυρος [Refs]; θύραι λίθιναι (including the framework) [Refs]; θύραι αὔλειαι, see at {αὔλειο; ἡ θ. ἡ εἰς τὸν κῆπον φέρονσα} [Refs 4th c.BC+]; rarely for πύλαι, gates, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the carceres in the Roman circus, barriers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν θ. βαλανοῦν, μοχλοῦν, bar the door, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θύραν κόπτειν, πατάσσειν, κρούειν, knock, rap at the door, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀράττειν, ἐπαράξαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν θ. ἀνοιγνύναι open it, see at {ἀνοίγνυμ; ὦσαι} push it open, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μικρὸν ἐνδοῦναι open it a little, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπί or παρὰ Πριάμοιο θύρῃσι at Priam's door, i.e. before his dwelling, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πυρετοῦ περὶ θύρας ὄντος being at the door, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
2. especially of kings and potentates, οἱ τῶν ἀρίστων Περσῶν παῖδες ἐπὶ ταῖς βασιλέως θύραις παιδεύονται are educated at court, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γυνὴ φοιτῶσα ἐπὶ τὰς θύρας τοῦ βασιλέος, of a petitioner, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ ἐπὶ τὰς θ. φοιτήσεις dangling after the court, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; applied also to lovers, clients, disciples, etc., ἐπὶ τὴν θύραν (or τὰς θύρας) τινὸς βαδίζειν, ἰέναι, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. proverbial, γλώσσῃ θύραι οὐκ ἐπίκεινται [Refs 6th c.BC+]; οὐδέποτ᾽ ἴσχει θ., of admirers of the Demos, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ θύραις τὴν ὑδρίαν to break the pitcher at the very door, 'there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip', [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τίς ἂν θύρας ἁμάρτο; [Refs 1st c.BC+]; τὸ κατὰ θύραν τερπνόν vulgar pleasures, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ θυρῶν εὐθέως τῆς.. ἀκροάσεως at the very beginning, [Refs 6th c.AD+]
4. shutter of a window, τὰς θ. τὰς ἐπὶ τῶν θυρίδων [Refs]
5. plural, door of a chariot, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
6. plural, axle-trees, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
7. θύρη καταπακτή trap-door, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
8. frame of planks, raft, [Refs]; φραξάμενοι τὴν ἀκρόπολιν θύρῃσί τε καὶ ξύλοισι with hurdles and logs, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
9. in war, fenced works to obstruct landingparties, in plural, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II. generally, entrance, as to a grotto, in plural, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.2. sluice-gate, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
III. metaphorically, senses, as the entrances to the soul, τὸ σῶμα πολλαῖς θυρίσι καὶ θύραις ἀνοίγοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+] dhur-, cf. Latin foras, fores, O[Refs 5th c.BC+] duru 'door', etc.)