Quick Definition
πυλών, ῶνος, ὁ n.m. a large gate, a gateway, porch
Strong's Definition
from 4439; a gate-way, door-way of a building or city; by implication, a portal or vestibule
KJV Usage: gate, porch
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ῶνος | πύλη
7.48 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
door, gate doors or gates used to close off entranceways 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 ACT 14:13 the reference may not be specifically to the gates as objects, but to the entranceway into the city.
LUK 16:20 · ACT 10:17 · ACT 12:14 · ACT 12:14 · ACT 14:13 · REV 21:12 · REV 21:12 · REV 21:13 · REV 21:13 · REV 21:13 · REV 21:13 · REV 21:15 · REV 21:21 · REV 21:21 · REV 21:25 · REV 22:14
7.38 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
gateway, entrance, vestibule the area associated with the entrance into a house or building The phrase τὰ πρὸς τὴν θύραν (see 7.39) 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’ MRK 2:2.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πυλών, -Ovos, 6, (πύλη), [Aristot., Polyb., al.], Sept. often for Nd, sometimes for pw; 1. alarge gate: of a palace, Lk. xvi. 20; of a house, Acts x. 17; plur. (of the gates of a city), Acts xiv. 13; Rev. xxi. 12, 13, 15, 21, 25; xxii. 14. 2. the anterior part of a house, into which one enters through the gate, porch: Mt. xxvi. 71 (cf. 69 and 75); Acts xii. 14; hence ἡ θύρα τοῦ πυλῶνος, ib. 13.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πυλών pylōn 18x
a gateway, vestibule, Mt. 26:71; Lk. 16:20; a gate, Acts 14:13; Rev. 21:12, 13, 15, 21, 25
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πυλών, -ῶνος, ὁ
(< πύλη), [in LXX chiefly for פֶּתַח, שַׁעַר;]
the porch or vestibule of a house or palace: Mt 26:71, Lk 16:20, Ac 10:17 12:13, 14.
The gate-way or gate-tower of a walled town: Ac 14:13, Re 21:12, 13, 15, 21, 25 22:14.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πυλών, “gateway ” of a house (Mt 267) or city (Ac 1414) : P Tebt Il. 331° (c. A.D. 131) ἐπῆλθοίν αἸὐὐθάδως els ἣν exw ἐν TH κώμῃ οἰκίαν. . ἐν τῶ πυλῶνι, ‘made a bold attack upon my house in the village . . at the gateway ᾿᾿ (Edd.), P Ryl II. 233° (ii/A.D.) κωμοκάτοικοί εἰσιν ot ἔζχο]ντες πρὸ Tod πυλῶνός σου τὸν ψιλὸν τόπον, ‘the owners of the open plot in front of your gateway are villagers,” and the illiterate P Oxy XII. 14898 (late iii/A.D.) τὸ κιθώνιν ἐπιλέλισμε (ἡ ἐπιλέλησμαι) παρὰ Τεκοῦσαν eis τὸν πυλῶνα, ‘I have left my cloak behind with Tecusa at the gateway” (Edd.). Psaltes Gr. p. 24 n.' has collected exx. of the late form πυλεών. For πύλιον see Preisigke 2098", 52557.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πυλών (pulōn) — gate. πυλ-ών, ῶνος, ὁ, gateway, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; frequently separated from the house or temple to which it gave entrance, gate-tower, gate-house, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of a temple, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; τετράθυρος π. [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἡ θύρα τοῦ π. [NT]