163 occurrences

'Door' in the Bible

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, From GodAbel and CainDoorsSin, Causes OfCrouchingEvil DesiresThe Entrance Of SinAcceptanceDoing The Right ThingSmiling

You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.

Verse ConceptsRooftopDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordBowingSalutationsThree MenIndividuals RunningTrinity

And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

Verse ConceptsListeningSanctity Of LifeConceptionBirths ForetoldThe Promise Of A Babysarah

And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him.

Verse ConceptsShutting SecurelyShutting Doors

And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

Verse ConceptsSeductionThreateningsSojourningPressingBroken ThingsSuffering From ForeignersWorse

But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutShutting DoorsPulling People

But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod BlindingNot Finding

So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,

Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambDoorpostsSprinklingBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of Constructions

For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction.

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentPassing OverPassing ThroughThe DestroyerBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of ConstructionsAngel Of DeathFamily Death

Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

Verse ConceptsGesturesEarsDoorpostsToolsEternal LoyaltyStaying PutSharp ToolsPiercingsslaveryVolunteering

And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesPurificationWashingPresented At The Doorway

And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The DoorwayKilling Sacrifices

And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The Doorway

This is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and have talk with you.

Verse ConceptsMeeting GodGod Speaking

And whenever Moses went out to the Tent of meeting, all the people got up and everyone went to the door of his tent, looking after Moses till he went inside the Tent.

Verse ConceptsTentsLooking Intently At People

And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with Moses.

Verse ConceptsCommunicationLonelinessPillarsDivine ManifestationsTent Of MeetingTheophanySolitudeObelisksGod Appearing At The DoorwayEntering The TabernacleGod Speaking

And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent.

Verse ConceptsStandingTent Of MeetingWorship, Places OfWorship, Reasons ForObelisksGod Appearing At The DoorwayWorshipping God

And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

Verse ConceptsPolesDrugs

And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;

Verse ConceptsembroideryRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting; and after washing them with water,

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesPresented At The Doorway

And at the door of the House of the Tent of meeting, he put the altar of burned offerings, offering on it the burned offering and the meal offering, as the Lord had given him orders.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingSacrifices At The DoorwaySetting Up The Bronze AltarMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLaw, OtSacrifices At The DoorwayMale AnimalsPerfect Sacrifices

And the ox is to be put to death before the Lord: then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and put some of it on and round the altar which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSprinklingSprinkling BloodSacrifices At The DoorwaySetting Up The Bronze AltarKilling Sacrifices

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death at the door of the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingSprinklingLaying On Of HandsSprinkling BloodHands On HeadsSacrifices At The DoorwayLaying Hands On SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

And he is to take the ox to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord; and put his hand on its head and put it to death before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSin OfferingHands On HeadsSacrifices At The DoorwayLaying Hands On SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

And the priest is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar on which perfume is burned before the Lord in the Tent of meeting, draining out all the rest of the blood of the ox at the base of the altar of burned offering which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsHornsAltar Of IncenseSetting Up The Bronze AltarBase Of Things

And he is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord in the Tent of meeting; and all the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar of burned offering at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The DoorwaySetting Up The Bronze AltarBase Of Things

And let all the people come together at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsAssembling IsraelAssembling At The Doorway

And Moses did as the Lord said, and all the people came together at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsAssembling IsraelAssembling At The Doorway

And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, The flesh is to be cooked in water at the door of the Tent of meeting, and there you are to take it as food, together with the bread in the basket, as I have given orders, saying, It is the food of Aaron and his sons.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The DoorwayFood For Priests Defined

And you are not to go out from the door of the Tent of meeting for seven days, till the days for making you priest are ended; for this will be the work of seven days.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayGoing OutsideOutside The House

And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayDeath As Punishment

And do not go out from the door of the Tent of meeting, or death will come to you; for the holy oil of the Lord is on you. And they did as Moses said.

Verse ConceptsOilPresented At The DoorwayGoing OutsideAnointing PriestsDeath Due To God's Presence

And when the days are ended for making her clean for a son or a daughter, let her take to the priest at the door of the Tent of meeting, a lamb of the first year for a burned offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin-offering:

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsSacrifices At The DoorwayAnimals At Specific Ages

And the priest who is making him clean will put the man who is being made clean, together with these things, before the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsPresented At The Doorway

And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean.

Verse ConceptsDay 8Presented At The Doorway

Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysShutting DoorsSeven Days For Legal Purposes

And on the eighth day he is to take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the door of the Tent of meeting and give them to the priest:

Verse ConceptsdovesPigeonsDay 8Presented At The DoorwayTwo Animals

And on the eighth day let her get two doves or two young pigeons and take them to the priest to the door of the Tent of meeting,

Verse ConceptsPigeonsDay 8Presented At The DoorwayTwo Animals

And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsTwoSacrifices At The DoorwayTwo Animals

And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:

Verse ConceptsSheddingSacrifices At The DoorwayThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The Doorway

And the priest will put blood on the altar of the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting, burning the fat for a sweet smell to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingThe Altar Of The LordSprinkling BloodFat Of The SacrificesRefreshing God

And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The DoorwayThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing.

Verse ConceptsSacrifices At The Doorway

In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting,

Verse ConceptsCovering The Tabernacle

They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting;

Verse ConceptsAnimal SkinsSwinging

And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;

Verse ConceptsdovesPigeonsDay 8Sacrifices At The Doorway

And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,

Verse ConceptsSeparated To God

Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.

Verse ConceptsHairsShavingBurning Sacrifices

When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsConvocationsAssembling At The DoorwayTwo Other Things

And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

Verse ConceptsTentsGod Will Be AngryMourning In RegretNot Pleasing People

And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsRevelation, In OtGod Appearing At The Doorway

So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

Verse ConceptsAssembling At The Doorway

And Korah made all the people come together against them to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.

Verse ConceptsAssembling At The Doorway

So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little ones.

Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the disease came to a stop.

Verse ConceptsCessationThings Stopping

Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they saw the glory of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfAttitudes, in prayerPrayer, Practicalities OfProstrationGod's Glory In IsraelAssembling At The Doorway

Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,

Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

Verse ConceptsToolsStaying PutSharp ToolsPiercingsRegulations For Men And Women

Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

And the Lord was seen in the Tent in a pillar of cloud resting by the door of the Tent.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsTheophanyGod Appearing At The Doorway

So the men went after them on the road to Jordan as far as the river-crossing: and when they had gone out after them, the door into the town was shut.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsPursuing PeopleShutting GatesFords

These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.

Verse ConceptsTent Of Meeting

And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Places

And Abimelech came to the tower and made an attack on it, and got near to the door of the tower for the purpose of firing it.

Verse ConceptsBurning Cities

Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConsecrationSacrifice, In OtMeeting People

While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.

Verse ConceptsVulgarityCrude LanguageDecadenceHomosexualityKnockingSexual Union IntendedAbuse

Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakPeople TumblingAt Daybreak

In the morning her master got up, and opening the door of the house went out to go on his way; and he saw his servant-wife stretched on the earth at the door of the house with her hands on the step.

And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her.

Verse ConceptsHeatNoonHot Weather

But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

Verse ConceptsNot going home directly

Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

Now she had on a long robe, such as in past times the king's virgin daughters were dressed in. Then the servant put her out, locking the door after her.

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Kinds OfRobesDressFine ClothesShutting DoorsMulti ColouredLocks And Barsvirginity

And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

Then the watchman saw another man running: and crying out in the direction of the door he said, Here is another man running by himself. And the king said, He, like the other, comes with news.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofPortersActing AloneRunning With NewsGood News

Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.

Verse ConceptsSittingAssembling IsraelSitting In The GatewayPeople Sitting DownIsrael Fleeing

The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysRight SidesSteps

For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.

Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

Verse ConceptsShields

So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsPraying Behind Closed Doors

So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.

Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out.

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsWhere To PrayPraying Behind Closed Doors

So Naaman, with all his horses and his carriages, came to the door of Elisha's house.

Verse ConceptsHorses

Then take the bottle and put the oil on his head, and say, The Lord says, I have put the holy oil on you to make you king over Israel. Then, opening the door, go in flight, without waiting.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking Kings

And Jezebel will become food for the dogs in the heritage of Jezreel, and there will be no one to put her body into the earth. Then, opening the door, he went in flight.

Verse ConceptsdogsAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesNo Burialsjezebel

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsChestsRight SidesMoney Box

And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.

Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallNamed GatesList Of Kings Of Israel

And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsGoldSacrilegeOverlaid With GoldMoney For The Temple

Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people;

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtCounting MoneyDoorkeepersFinances

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el

Verse ConceptsAstrologyBurning Idolatrous ThingsAshes Of HumiliationServing Asherah

Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

Bible Theasaurus

Approach (127 instances)
Barrier (7 instances)
Channel (5 instances)
Doorway (256 instances)
Entrance (223 instances)
Gateway (40 instances)
Inlet (5 instances)
Lane (1 instance)
Portal (1 instance)
Threshold (29 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain