Greek noun (masculine) · G4440
πυλών
pylonpoo-lone'
the porch or vestibule of a house or palace; The gate-way or gate-tower of a walled town
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pylṓn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4440is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4440
a gate-way, door-way of a building or city; by implication, a portal or vestibule
The King James renders it: gate, porch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pylon is rendered "the porch or vestibule of a house or palace; The gate-way or gate-tower of a walled town". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "the porch or vestibule of a house or palace".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 26:71When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
Matthew 26:71πυλῶνα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's eighteen uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: the porch or vestibule of a house or palace, and The gate-way or gate-tower of a walled town.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the porch or vestibule of a house or palaceMat.26:71, Luk.16:20, Act.10:17 12:13-14 | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 26:71When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people… |
| The gate-way or gate-tower of a walled townAct.14:13, Rev.21:12-13, 15 21:21, 25 22:14.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereActs 14:13The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πυλῶνες6
- πυλῶνα4
- πυλῶνας3
- πυλῶνος2
- πυλῶσιν2
- πυλώνων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural6N-NPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular4N-ASM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural3N-APM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural2N-DPM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2N-GSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
Matthew
one use
When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
- πυλῶναpulonanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: porch
Luke
one use
And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
- πυλῶναpulonanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: gate
Acts
five uses
While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
- πυλῶναpulonanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: gate
He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
- πυλῶνοςpulonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: gate
When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”
- πυλῶναpulonanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: gate
- πυλῶνοςpulonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: gate
The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a sacrifice along with the crowds.
- πυλῶναςpulonasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
Revelation
eleven uses
The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.
- πυλῶναςpulonasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
- πυλῶσινpulosinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west.
- πυλῶνεςpulonesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
- πυλῶνεςpulonesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
- πυλῶνεςpulonesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
- πυλῶνεςpulonesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.
- πυλῶναςpulonasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.
- πυλῶνεςpulonesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
- πυλώνωνpulononnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
- πυλῶνεςpulonesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
- πυλῶσινpulosinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: gates
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.