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Strong's #4439: pule (pronounced poo'-lay)

apparently a primary word; a gate, i.e. the leaf or wing of a folding entrance (literally or figuratively):--gate.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pulē

1) a gate

1a) of the larger sort

1a1) in the wall of either a city

1a2) a palace

1a3) a town

1a4) the temple

1a5) a prison

2) the gates of hell (likened to a vast prison)

3) metaphorically the access or entrance into any state

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: apparently a primary word

Citing in TDNT: 6:921, 974




Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

Matthew 7:13: "ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,"
Matthew 7:13: "for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,"
Matthew 7:14: "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,"
Matthew 16:18: "I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against"
Luke 7:12: "when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold,"
Luke 13:24: "at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you,"
Acts 3:10: "at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled"
Acts 9:24: "And they watched the gates day and night"
Acts 12:10: "unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city;"
Hebrews 13:12: "suffered without the gate."









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