217 occurrences

'Gate' in the Bible

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessBowingUnidentified AngelsNewsAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversSalutationsSitting In The GatewayBowing Heads Before GodTwo AngelsAngels Going At God's BiddingSpoken Greetings

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth; even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Verse ConceptsempiresCitiesBusiness At The GatewayIn Men's Presence

to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The GatewayIn Men's Presence

They blessed Rebekah and said to her,“May you, our sister,Become thousands of ten thousands,And may your descendants possessThe gate of those who hate them.”

Verse ConceptsBenedictionsBlessedA Million And MoreCapturing GatesPeople OvercomingPeople Who Blessed OthersChildren Being A Blessing

He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Verse ConceptsGatesHeaven, God's HabitationAweRising EarlyMorning DevotionsTerror Of GodBethel The House Of GodHeavenly Vision

So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsBusiness At The GatewayConsent

The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three sockets.

Verse ConceptsThree Other ThingsDimensions Of Other Things

For the gate of the court there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver, with their four pillars and their four sockets.

Verse ConceptsembroideryFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothMulti ColouredDimensions Of Other ThingsBlue Purple And Scarlet

then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him.

Verse ConceptsChoicesGood Decision Making ExamplesRankChoosingAssembling LeadersStanding In The Gateway

He said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Every man of you put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbor.’”

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyComing To GatesKilling Brothers

the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

Verse ConceptsPillars For The TabernacleSockets

The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets,

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

and so for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

The screen of the gate of the court was the work of the weaver, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was twenty cubits and the height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

Verse ConceptsembroideryColors, BlueGates Of The TempleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.

Verse ConceptsPegsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

the hangings for the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

Verse ConceptsRopesTentsPegsPillars For The TabernacleSocketsGates Of The Temple

and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service; and all that is to be done, they shall perform.

then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

Verse ConceptsTownComing To Gatesvirginity

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsComing To GatesInstructions About Stoning

But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToTownComing To GatesPeople UnwillingBrothers in lawMarriage Between Man And Woman

It came about when it was time to shut the gate at dark, that the men went out; I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”

Verse ConceptsGatesShutting Gates

So the men pursued them on the road to the Jordan to the fords; and as soon as those who were pursuing them had gone out, they shut the gate.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsPursuing PeopleShutting GatesFords

The men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of their men, and pursued them from the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them down on the descent, so the hearts of the people melted and became as water.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionHeart, HumanMeltingThirty SomeLosing Courage

He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among them.

Verse ConceptsGatesWaiting At Gates

Now Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the city gate; and Abimelech and the people who were with him arose from the ambush.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.

Verse ConceptsWounds

Then Abimelech and the company who was with him dashed forward and stood in the entrance of the city gate; the other two companies then dashed against all who were in the field and slew them.

Verse ConceptsCapturing Gates

When it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. And they kept silent all night, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

Now Samson lay until midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.

Verse ConceptsStrength, SpiritualMidnightLocks And BarsCarrying Other Loads

The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

Verse ConceptsSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfFive PeopleSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz spoke was passing by, so he said, “Turn aside, friend, sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.

Verse ConceptsGatesSitting In The Gateway

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsBackwardsPeople Tumblinglosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherLeadership QualitiesFalling Backwards

Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”

Verse ConceptsWhere Are Things?

So he disguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesBeardsSalivaPretendingWriting On Objects

The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”

Verse ConceptsGatesRoadsStanding In The GatewayThose Who Rose EarlyWhere From?

Then the king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and thousands.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running by himself.

Verse ConceptsRoofWallsRooftopSitting In The GatewayRunning With NewsPeople Sitting Down

So the king arose and sat in the gate. When they told all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate,” then all the people came before the king.Now Israel had fled, each to his tent.

Verse ConceptsSittingAssembling IsraelSitting In The GatewayPeople Sitting DownIsrael Fleeing

David had a craving and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!”

Verse ConceptsLove, And The Worldriskheartbeat

So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nevertheless he would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord;

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConsecrationDrawing WaterPouring WaterBreaking Forthrisk

So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Verse ConceptsGatesRobesSchool Of ProphetsThreshing FloorThroneSitting In The GatewayDistinctive Clothing

Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

Verse ConceptsFoodCoinageElisha, Prophecies OfGatesGrainProphecy, Methods Of OtTradeWeights And Measures, DryMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrowmarketing

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

Verse ConceptsGatesLeprosyLonelinessQuarantineFour PeopleWaiting At GatesHow Death Is InevitableDyingWaiting Till Marriagesyria

Now the king appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfTrampling PeopleDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsOther Supporting

It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria.”

Verse ConceptsMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrow

And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.

Verse ConceptsTrampling PeopleMan's Words Fulfilled

As Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it well, Zimri, your master’s murderer?”

Verse ConceptsKilling Kings

When the messenger came and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

Verse ConceptsTwo Of Body Parts

(one third also shall be at the gate Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guards), shall keep watch over the house for defense.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

He took the captains of hundreds and the Carites and the guards and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guards to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

Verse ConceptsThrone

Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits.

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

Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the city gate.

Verse ConceptsGatesGovernorsHigh Places

Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

Verse ConceptsHorticultureWallsEnemies SurroundingComing BetweenWalled TownsIsrael FleeingDuring One NightTwo Parts Of Constructions

being stationed until now at the king’s gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers for the camp of the sons of Levi.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

David had a craving and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

So the three broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; nevertheless David would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord;

Verse ConceptsDrawing WaterPouring Water

And with them were Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun for the gate.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsTrumpetPortersInstrumentalists

They cast lots, the small and the great alike, according to their fathers’ households, for every gate.

For Shuppim and Hosah it was to the west, by the gate of Shallecheth, on the ascending highway. Guard corresponded to guard.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesWest Sides

Now according to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their duties of praise and ministering before the priests according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for David the man of God had so commanded.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersOrdinancesDaily Duty

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Verse ConceptsRobesSchool Of ProphetsThreshing FloorThrone

and one third shall be at the king’s house, and a third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardNamed Gates

So they seized her, and when she arrived at the entrance of the Horse Gate of the king’s house, they put her to death there.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfNamed Gates

He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and came through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they placed the king upon the royal throne.

Verse ConceptsNoblesRulersThroneNamed Gates

So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside by the gate of the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGatesGateways Of The Temple

Then Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits.

Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the corner buttress and fortified them.

Verse ConceptsFarmersTowersNamed GatesSportsreinforcement

He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and he built extensively the wall of Ophel.

Verse ConceptsWallsBuilding Jerusalem's WallGates Of The Temple

Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the eastern gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to apportion the contributions for the Lord and the most holy things.

Verse ConceptsFreewill OfferingDividing FoodFree Will

He appointed military officers over the people and gathered them to him in the square at the city gate, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

Verse ConceptsCityBuilding Jerusalem's WallNamed Gatesreinforcement

The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersMusicMusiciansSingersSeersSingingPorters

So I went out at night by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon’s Well and on to the Refuse Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were consumed by fire.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureCity GatesNamed GatesBurning JerusalemInspectingDuring One Night

Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no place for my mount to pass.

Verse ConceptsPoolsNamed Gates

So I went up at night by the ravine and inspected the wall. Then I entered the Valley Gate again and returned.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesDuring One Night

Now the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and hung its doors with its bolts and bars.

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed Gates

Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall to the Refuse Gate.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesGay Marriage

Malchijah the son of Rechab, the official of the district of Beth-haccherem repaired the Refuse Gate. He built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at the king’s garden as far as the steps that descend from the city of David.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureStairwaysPoolsNamed GatesStepsGardens Attached To Palaces

The temple servants living in Ophel made repairs as far as the front of the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed GatesTemple Assistants

Above the Horse Gate the priests carried out repairs, each in front of his house.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

After them Zadok the son of Immer carried out repairs in front of his house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, carried out repairs.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, carried out repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, in front of the Inspection Gate and as far as the upper room of the corner.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesTemple Assistants

And all the people gathered as one man at the square which was in front of the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTAutumnMonth 7Named GatesBook of the Lawgathering

He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

Verse ConceptsDawnNoonBible, Names OfNamed GatesReading The Bible

So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardHousesRoofHousetopsNamed Gates

Then I had the leaders of Judah come up on top of the wall, and I appointed two great choirs, the first proceeding to the right on top of the wall toward the Refuse Gate.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureThanksgiving, OfferedChoirsRight SidesNamed GatesSingers

At the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the city of David by the stairway of the wall above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysNamed GatesSteps

and above the Gate of Ephraim, by the Old Gate, by the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed Gates

When the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewaySecond Marriage

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קבץ 
Qabats 
Usage: 127

συλλέγω 
Sullego 
Usage: 0

גּדד 
Gadad 
Usage: 9

זעק 
Za`aq 
Usage: 73

כּנס 
Kanac 
Usage: 11

לקט 
Laqat 
Usage: 37

נתך 
Nathak 
Usage: 21

סקל 
Caqal 
Usage: 22

עוּז 
`uwz 
Usage: 4

קשׁשׁ 
Qashash 
Usage: 8

ἐπισυνάγω 
Episunago 
Usage: 2

συνάγω 
sunago 
Usage: 40

אגר 
'agar 
Usage: 3

אסף 
'acaph 
Usage: 199

אסף 
'oceph 
Usage: 3

ארה 
'arah 
Usage: 2

בּזז 
Bazaz 
Usage: 43

בּלס 
Balac 
Usage: 1

גּוּר 
Guwr 
Usage: 98

גּעתּם 
Ga`tam 
Usage: 3

גּת 
Gath 
Usage: 33

גּתּה־חפר גּת־החפר 
Gath-ha-Chepher 
Usage: 2

גּת־רמּון 
Gath-Rimmown 
Usage: 4

דּגר 
Dagar 
Usage: 2

דּלת 
Deleth 
Usage: 88

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 142

יעד 
Ya`ad 
Usage: 29

יקּהה 
Yiqqahah 
Usage: 2

כּנשׁ 
Kanash (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

לקשׁ 
Laqash 
Usage: 1

מלא מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 251

מּקוא מקוה מקוהo 
Miqveh 
Usage: 12

סף 
Caph 
Usage: 32

שׂפח ספח 
Caphach 
Usage: 6

ערם 
`aram 
Usage: 1

פּתח 
Pethach 
Usage: 164

צבר 
Tsabar 
heap up , heap , gather , lay
Usage: 7

צעק 
Tsa`aq 
Usage: 55

קבצה 
Q@butsah 
Usage: 1

קהל 
Qahal 
Usage: 38

קוה 
Qavah 
Usage: 49

רכשׁ 
Rakash 
Usage: 5

שׁער 
Sha`ar 
Usage: 374

תּרע 
T@ra` (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

ἀνακεφαλαίομαι 
Anakephalaiomai 
Usage: 2

ἐπαθροίζω 
Epathroizo 
Usage: 1

ἐπισυναγωγή 
Episunagoge 
Usage: 2

θύρα 
Thura 
Usage: 25

λογία 
Logia 
Usage: 2

ὀχλοποιέω 
Ochlopoieo 
Usage: 1

πύλη 
Pule 
Usage: 4

πυλών 
Pulon 
Usage: 17

συμβιβάζω 
Sumbibazo 
Usage: 6

συναθροίζω 
sunathroizo 
Usage: 2

σύνειμ 
suneimi 
Usage: 1

συστρέφω 
Sustrepho 
Usage: 1

τρυγάω 
Trugao 
Usage: 2

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