Bible Lexicons

In P Petr III. 48.18, we hear of θυρίδας κοιλοστάθμους, where for the last word the editors refer to LXX Haggai 1:4, and for the corresponding verb to 3Ki. 6:9, and understand the meaning to be to put a sheath of wood over the door-posts or the sides of the windows. BGU IV. 1116.23 (B.C. 13) describes a house θύραις καὶ θυρίσι καὶ κλεισί : see ib..15 for the verbs—τὴν οἰκίαν τεθυρωμένην καὶ τεθυριδωμένην καὶ κ ̣ε ̣κ ̣λ ̣ε ̣ι ̣σ ̣μ ̣ε ̣ν ̣ην. [Θυριδόω is not in LS.8, but cf. θυριδωτός.] Cf. also P Ryl II. 233.5 (ii/A.D.) τὰ μέλαθρα τῶν θυρίδων τοῦ μεγάλου συμποσίου, ";the beams of the windows in the great dining-hall"; (Edd.), and P Oxy I. 69.7 (A.D. 190) where stolen barley is removed from a house διὰ τῆς αὐτῆς θυρίδος, ";by the said door,"; according to the editors, but any opening may be intended. In P Lond 35.5 (B.C. 161) (= I. p. 25) τὴν παρὰ [τοῦ βα ]σίλεως διὰ τῆς θυρίδος ἐ [σφρα ]γισμένην, the reference, as Kenyon notes, is to ";the opening of a folded papyrus sheet, which would be sealed up to hold it all together and to hide the contents."; An interesting inscr. in C. and B. ii. p. 650 tells of the honour paid by the Synagogue to certain Jews who ἐποίησαν τὴν τῶν θυρίδων ἀσφάλειαν καὶ τὸν λυπὸν πάντα κόσμον. MGr παραθύρι, ";window.";