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Lexicon :: Strong's G4440 - pylōn

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πυλών
Transliteration
pylōn (Key)
Pronunciation
poo-lone'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:921,974

Strong’s Definitions

πυλών pylṓn, poo-lone'; from G4439; a gate-way, door-way of a building or city; by implication, a portal or vestibule:—gate, porch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G4440 in the following manner: gate (17x), porch (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's G4440 in the following manner: gate (17x), porch (1x).

  1. a large gate: of a palace

  2. the front part of a house, into which one enters through the gate, porch

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πυλών pylṓn, poo-lone'; from G4439; a gate-way, door-way of a building or city; by implication, a portal or vestibule:—gate, porch.
STRONGS G4440:
πυλών, πυλῶνος, ὁ (πύλη) (Aristotle, Polybius, others), the Sept. often for פֶּתַח, sometimes for שַׁעַר;
1. a large gate: of a palace, Luke 16:20; of a house, Acts 10:17; plural (of the gates of a city), Acts 14:13; Revelation 21:12, 13, 15, 21, 25; Revelation 22:14.
2. the anterior part of a house, into which one enters through the gate, porch: Matthew 26:71 (cf. 69 and 75); Acts 12:14; hence, ἡ θύρα τοῦ πυλῶνος, Acts 12:13.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
26:71
Luke
16:20
Acts
10:17; 12:13; 12:14; 14:13
Revelation
21:12; 21:13; 21:15; 21:21; 21:25; 22:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4440 matches the Greek πυλών (pylōn),
which occurs 22 times in 19 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:19 - And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spake unto him at the door of the house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:16 - And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:8 - The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:33 - So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:27 - And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:9 - And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who smote all these?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:5 - And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:13 - And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:7 - He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:10 - And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, that kept the door of the king’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:30 - And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9 - Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11 - And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14 - And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals thereof; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar-work.
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