θύρα
door
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2374 appears in the Book of John — 7 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
- John 10:1 θύρας n gen sg fem "Most assuredly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
- John 10:2 θύρας n gen sg fem But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
- John 10:7 θύρα n nom sg fem Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.
- John 10:9 θύρα n nom sg fem I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
- John 18:16 θύρᾳ n dat sg fem but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
- John 20:19 θυρῶν n gen pl fem When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
- John 20:26 θυρῶν n gen pl fem After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun θυρα centers on the idea of “door.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 6:6. It appears 37 verses across 10 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Acts (27%), then John and Mark. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. Dig into 37-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2374 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 37
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 37 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #385
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 385 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 37 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 37 distinct verses.
- Gospels 20 verses · 54%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 13 verses · 35%
- Johannine 10 verses · 27%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 8%
- Revelation 3 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Door 29×, Doors 9×
- American Standard Version: Door 28×, Doors 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Door 20×, Doors 6×, Gate 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Door 25×, Doors 9×, Gate 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2374 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2374 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2374 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2374 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the vestibule
- used of any opening like a door, an entrance, way or passage into
- in a parable or metaphor
Word origin
Origin: "apparently a root word [cf "door"]"
Apparently a primary word (compare door); a portal or entrance (the opening or the closure literally or figuratively): - door gate.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G2374 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θύραν thýran | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 6:6 | 14 |
| θύρας thýras | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Mark 16:3 | 8 |
| θύρα thýra | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 25:10 | 6 |
| θυρῶν thyrō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | John 20:19 | 4 |
| θύρᾳ thýra | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 27:60 | 3 |
| θύραι thýrai | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 16:26 | 2 |
| θύραις thýrais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 24:33 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2374, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θυρα appears 186 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 169 verses in 25 books.
- 186
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 169
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:16 θύρα
- Exodus 12:22 θύρα
- Leviticus 1:3 θύρα
- Numbers 3:25 θύρα
- Deuteronomy 15:17 θύρα
- Joshua 2:19 θύρα
- Judges 3:23 θύρα
- 1 Samuel 3:15 θύρα
- 2 Samuel 10:8 θύρα
- 1 Kings 6:31 θύρα
- 2 Kings 4:4 θύρα
- 1 Chronicles 9:21 θύρα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2374) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 169. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:16 θύρα You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
- Genesis 18:1 θύρα Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
- Genesis 18:2 θύρα He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
- Genesis 18:10 θύρα He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 19:6 θύρα Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
- Genesis 19:9 θύρα They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:10 θύρα But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 19:11 θύρα They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
- Exodus 12:22 θύρα You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
- Exodus 12:23 θύρα For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
- Exodus 21:6 θύρα then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
- Exodus 29:4 θύρα You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
- Exodus 29:10 θύρα "You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
- Exodus 29:11 θύρα You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 29:32 θύρα Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 29:42 θύρα It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- Exodus 33:8 θύρα It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
- Exodus 33:9 θύρα It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
- Exodus 33:10 θύρα All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
- Exodus 37:5 θύρα He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- Exodus 38:20 θύρα All the pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass.
- Exodus 38:26 θύρα a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
- Exodus 39:7 θύρα He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:19 θύρα They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
- Exodus 40:5 θύρα You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent.
- Exodus 40:6 θύρα You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 40:12 θύρα You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
- Exodus 40:29 θύρα He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal-offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 1:3 θύρα "'If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 1:5 θύρα He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 3:2 θύρα He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 3:8 θύρα and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 3:13 θύρα and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 4:4 θύρα He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 4:7 θύρα The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood of the bull out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:14 θύρα when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:18 θύρα He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 8:3 θύρα and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting."
- Leviticus 8:4 θύρα Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 8:33 θύρα You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.
- Leviticus 8:35 θύρα At the door of the Tent of Meeting you shall stay day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Yahweh, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."
- Leviticus 10:7 θύρα You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." They did according to the word of Moses.
- Leviticus 12:6 θύρα "'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
- Leviticus 14:11 θύρα The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 14:23 θύρα "On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:38 θύρα then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
- Leviticus 15:14 θύρα "'On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:
- Leviticus 15:29 θύρα On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 16:7 θύρα He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 17:4 θύρα and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2374) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
