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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
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• ܬ݁ܰܪܥܳܐ
• θύρα
• πύλη
• πυλών
• דַּל דָּלָה, , דֶּלֶת
• סַף סַף, , סַף
• פֶּתַח
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(prop. שִׁעִר, shalar, πὑλη; which are also used [espec. the Heb. word] for DOOR (See DOOR) [q.v.], although this latter is more properly designated by פֶּתִח, pe'thach, an opening, of which דֶּלֶת, de'leth, was the valve, Gr. θύρα; there also occur סִ, saph, 1 Chronicles 9:19; 1 Chronicles 9:21, a vestibule or "threshold," as usually elsewhere rendered; and the Chald. תּרִע, tera' an entrance, only in Ezra and Dan.), the entrance to inclosed grounds, buildings, dwelling-houses, towns, etc. (see Thomson, Land and Book, 1:29 sq.). Thus we find mentioned. Gates of Cities, as of Jerusalem, its sheep-gate, fishgate, etc. (Jeremiah 37:13; Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 2:3; Nehemiah 5:3); of Sodom (Genesis 19:1); of Gaza (Judges 16:3).

2. Gates of royal palaces (Nehemiah 3:8).

3. Gates of the Temple. The temple of Ezekiel had two gates, one towards the north, the other towards the east; the latter closed (Ezekiel 44:1-2), the other must have been open. The gates of Solomon's Temple were very massive and costly, being overlaid with gold and carvings (1 Kings 6:34-35; 2 Kings 18:16). Those of the Holy Place were of olive-wood, two-leaved. and overlaid with gold; those of the Temple of fir (1 Kings 6:31-32; 1 Kings 6:34; Ezekiel 41:23-24). Of the gates of the outer courts of Heroid's temple, nine were covered with gold and silver, as.well as the posts and lintels; but the middle one, the Beautifil Gate (Acts 3:2), was made entirely of Corinthian brass, and was considered to surpass the others far in costliness (Joseph. War, 5:5, 3). This gate, which was so heavy as to require twenty men to close it, was unexpectedly found open on one occasion shortly before the close of the siege (Joseph. War, 6:5,3; Revelation 2:9).

4. Gates of tombs (Matthew 27:60).

5. Gates of prisons. In Acts 12:10, mention is made of the iron gate of Peter's prison (Acts 16:27). Prudentius (Peristephanon, 5:346) speaks of gate-keepers of prisons.

6. Gates of caverns (1 Kings 19:13).

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