πύλη, πύλης, ἡ (perhaps feminine of πόλος (cf. English pole i. e. axis) from the root πελῶ, to turn (Curtius, p. 715)), from Homer down; the Sept. very often for ωΗΡςΗψ, occasionally for γΐΜμΕϊ, sometimes for τΖΜϊΗη; a gate (of the larger sort, in the wall either of a city or a palace; Thomas Magister (p. 292, 4) πύλαι ἐπί τείχους. θύραι ἐπί οἰκίας): of a town, Luk_7:12; Act_9:24; Act_16:13 L T Tr WH; Heb_13:12; of the temple, Act_3:10; in the wall of a prison, Act_12:10; πύλαι ᾅδου, the gates of Hades (likened to a vast prison; hence, the 'keys' of Hades, Rev_1:18), Mat_16:18 (on which see κατισχύω); Wis_16:13; 3Ma_5:51, and often by secular writings; see Grimm on 3Ma_5:51. in figurative discourse equivalent to access or entrance into any state: Mat_7:13{a} ,13{b} R G T brackets Tr WH marginal reading, 14 R G L brackets T brackets Tr WH; Luk_13:24 R L marginal reading (On its omission see προβατικός.)

πύλη pylē 10x a gate, Mat_7:13-14 ; Luk_7:12 ; Act_12:10 ; πύλαι ᾅδου , the gates of hades, the nether world and its powers, the powers of destruction, dissolution, Mat_16:18 door; gate.

πύλη , -ης , ἡ , [in LXX chiefly and very freq . for H8179 sometimes for H1817 , H6607 ;] a gate: Luk_7:12 , Act_9:24 ; Act_12:10 ; Act_16:13 , Heb_13:12 ; ἡ Ὡραία Π . τ . ἱεροῦ , Act_3:10 . Metaph ., Mat_7:13-14 ; πύλαι ᾅδου ( Wis_16:13 , 3Ma_5:51 , and cf. κλαῖς ᾅδου Rev_1:18 ): Mat_16:18 .†

πύλη [page 559] P Oxy VI. 892 .9 (A.D. 338) βορρινήν πύλην τῆς πόλεως , north gate of the city. For πύλη followed by the name of a village in custom-house receipts cf. P Fay 68 .1 (A.D. 158) τετέλ (εσται ) δι (ὰ ) πύλ (ης ) Διονυ (σιάδος ) ἐρη (μοφυλακίας ), and see GH p. 195 ff. For the irregular dat. plur. in 3 Kingd 22 .10 A, see Psaltes Gr . p. 174.

πύλη πψ́λη, ἡ, "one wing of a pair of double gates", Hdt. : mostly in pl. "the gates of a town", opp. to θύρα "(a house-door)", Il. , attic in Trag. , sometimes, of the "house-door." Ἀΐδαο πύλαι, periphr. for "the nether world, hell", Hom. , Aesch. , etc. generally, "an entrance", of the liver, π. καὶ δοχαὶ χολῆς "the orifice" and receptacle of gall, Eur. "an entrance into a country through mountains, a mountain-pass", Hdt. : esp. Πύλαι, ῶν, αἱ, the common name for Θερμοπύλαι, "the pass round the mountains" from Thessaly to Locris, considered "the gates" of Greece, id=Hdt. ; so, of "the pass" from Syria into Cilicia, Xen. , etc. also of "narrow straits", by which one enters a broad sea, ἐπ᾽ αὐταῖς λίμνης π., of the Thracian Bosporus, Aesch. ; ἐν πύλαις, of the Euripus, Eur.

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)