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Strong's #2374: thura (pronounced thoo'-rah)

apparently a primary word (compare "door"); a portal or entrance (the opening or the closure, literally or figuratively):--door, gate.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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thura

1) a door

1a) the vestibule

1b) used of any opening like a door, an entrance, way or passage into

1c) in a parable or metaphor

1c1) the door through which sheep go in and out, the name of him who brings salvation to those who follow his guidance

1c2) "an open door" is used of the opportunity of doing something

1c3) the door of the kingdom of heaven (likened to a palace) denotes the conditions which must be complied with in order to be received into the kingdom of God

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: apparently a root word [compare "door" ]

Citing in TDNT: 3:173, 340




Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

Matthew 6:6: "and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which"
Matthew 24:33: "it is near, even at the doors."
Matthew 25:10: "marriage: and the door was shut."
Matthew 27:60: "a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed."
Matthew 28:2: "stone from the door, and sat upon it."
Mark 1:33: "gathered together at the door."
Mark 2:2: "there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the"
Mark 11:4: "tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and"
Mark 13:29: "it is nigh, even at the doors."
Mark 15:46: "rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulcher."
Mark 16:3: "the stone from the door of the sepulcher?"
Luke 11:7: "and say, Trouble me not: the door is now"
Luke 13:25: "master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin"
Luke 13:25: "to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord,"
John 10:1: "not by the door into the sheepfold,"
John 10:2: "he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the"
John 10:7: "I am the door of the sheep."
John 10:9: "I am the door: by me if any man"
John 18:16: "stood at the door without. Then went out that other"
John 20:19: "week, when the doors were shut where the disciples"
John 20:26: "then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in"
Acts 3:2: "daily at the gate of the temple which is called"
Acts 5:9: "husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out."
Acts 5:19: "opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,"
Acts 5:23: "without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man"
Acts 12:6: "and the keepers before the"
Acts 12:6: "and the keepers before the"
Acts 12:13: "as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came"
Acts 14:27: "with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the"
Acts 16:26: "immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands"
Acts 16:27: "and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword,"
Acts 21:30: "temple: and forthwith the doors were shut."
1 Corinthians 16:9: "For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and"
2 Corinthians 2:12: "preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,"
Colossians 4:3: "God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery"
James 5:9: "judge standeth before the door."
Revelation 3:8: "before thee an open door, and no man can shut"
Revelation 3:20: "I stand at the door, and knock: if any man"
Revelation 3:20: "and open the door, I will come in to him, and"
Revelation 4:1: "I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and"









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