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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Strait Gate
• Sheep Gate
• Gates
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Gates of Death
• Gates
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Gates
• City; Gates (Cities Etc Listed Separately)
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Gates
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Lych Gate
American Tract Society
• Gate
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Sheep-Gate
• Shallecheth, the Gate of
• Old Gate
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Sheep Gate
• Shallecheth, the Gate
• Gate
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Sur, Gate of
• Sheep Gate
• Refuse Gate
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Sheep Gate
• Old Gate
• Horse-Gate
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Gate (2)
• Gate
• Beautiful Gate
King James Dictionary
• Gate
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Gate
• Ephraim, Gate of
• Dung-Gate
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Lych Gate
• Heaven, Gate of
• Gate-House Chapel
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Gates
• Gate
People's Bible Dictionary
• Gate
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Sheep Gate, Sheep Market
• Gate
• Gate
Webster Dictionary
• Sea-Gate
• Lych Gate
• Another-Gates
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Gate
• Hell, Gates of
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gate
• Horatio Gates
• James Gates Percival
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Bath-Rabbim, the Gate of
• Beautiful; Gate
• Benjamin, Gate of
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Gates
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Beautiful Gate
• Dung Gate; Dung Hill; Dung Port
• Dung-Gate
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Cilician Gates
• Gate of Tears
• Gates, Horatio
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Gate
• Nicanor's Gate
Lexicons
• ܬ݁ܰܪܥܳܐ
• θύρα
• πύλη
• πυλών
• דַּל דָּלָה, , דֶּלֶת
• סַף סַף, , סַף
• פֶּתַח
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GATE, n.

1. A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice. It differs from door chiefly in being larger. Gate signifies both the opening or passage, and the frame of boards, planks or timber which closes the passage.

2. A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground also, the passage.

3. The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.

4. An avenue an opening a way.

In scripture, figuratively, power, dominion. "Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies " that is, towns and fortresses. Genesis 22

The gates of hell, are the power and dominion of the devil and his instruments. Matthew 16

The gates of death, are the brink of the grave. Psalms 9