Quick Definition
πύλη, ης, ἡ n.f. a door, gate
Strong's Definition
a gate, i.e. the leaf or wing of a folding entrance (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: apparently a primary word;
KJV Usage: gate
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ης | πυλών
7.48 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
door, gate doors or gates used to close off entranceways πύλη 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.
MAT 7:13 · MAT 7:13 · MAT 7:14 · LUK 7:12 · ACT 3:10 · ACT 9:24 · ACT 12:10 · ACT 16:13 · HEB 13:12
12.50 · Supernatural Beings and Powers · Supernatural Powers
Collocation: πύλαι ᾅδου
death (an idiom, literally: gates of Hades) death as an impersonal supernatural power Some scholars, however, understand πύλαι ᾅδου to mean Satanic powers of evil.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πύλη, -ns, 7, [perh. fem. of πόλος (cf. Eng. pole i. 6. axis) fr. r. wéA-@ to turn (Curtius p. 715)], fr. Hom. down; Sept. very often for yw, occasionally for 7, sometimes for M3; a gate (of the larger sort, in the wall either of a city ora palace; Thom. Mag. [p. 292, 4] πύλαι ἐπὶ τείχους - θύραι ἐπὶ οἰκίας) : of a town, Lk. vii. 12; Acts ix. 24; xvi. 13 LT Tr WH; Heb. xiii. 12; of the temple, Acts iii. 10; in the wall of a prison, Acte xil. 10; πύλαι Gdov, the gates of Hades (likened to a vast prison; hence the ‘ keys’ of Hades, Rev. i. 18), Mt. xvi. 18 (on which see κατισχύω) ; Sap. xvi. 18; 8 Mace. v. 51, and often by prof. writ.; see Grimm on 3 Mace. v.51. ἰπ fig. disc. i. q. access or entrance into any state: Mt. vii. 13°, 13
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πύλη pylē 10x
a gate, Mt. 7:13, 14; Lk. 7:12; Acts 12:10; πύλαι ᾅδου, the gates of hades, the nether world and its powers, the powers of destruction, dissolution, Mt. 16:18
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πύλη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly and very freq. for שַׁעַר sometimes for דֶּלֶת, פֶּתַח;]
a gate: Lk 7:12, Ac 9:24 12:10 16:13, He 13:12; ἡ Ὡραία Π. τ. ἱεροῦ, Ac 3:10. Metaph., Mt 7:13, 14; πύλαι ᾅδου (Wi 16:13, III Mac 5:51, and cf. κλεῖς ᾅδου, Re 1:18): Mt 16:18.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πύλη. P Oxy VI. 892° (A.p. 338) βορρινὴν πύλην τῆς πόλεως, “north gate of the city.’’ For πύλη followed by the name of a village in custom-house receipts cf. P Fay 681 (a.p. 158) τετέλίεσται) δι(ὰ) πύλ(ης) Διονυ(σιάδος) ἐρηίμοφυλακίας), and see GH p. 195 ff. For the irregular dat. plur. in 3 Kingd 221° A, see Psaltes Gr. p. 174.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πύλη (pulē) — gate. 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+]