θύρα
thura
door
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
SupportedThe Greek word θύρα (thura) is primarily defined as a door. It appears 40 times throughout the Bible, which indicates a significant presence in the text. As a door, θύρα represents an opening or entrance to a space, and its usage often involves movement in or out of that space. The various occurrences of θύρα suggest its versatility in Greek language and biblical contexts. Sometimes it's used to describe the entrance to a house, building, or city, while other instances imply a symbolic or metaphorical door, signifying access, separation, or transition between different realms or states. The frequency and variety of θύρα's usage demonstrate its importance in biblical discourse. In its literal and figurative senses, θύρα highlights the theme of movement, access, and boundaries. Whether used literally or metaphorically, it serves as a connector or divider between interior and exterior spaces, emphasizing the concept of passage and transition. This emphasis underscores the significance of θύρα in the biblical narrative, where doors often symbolize turning points, thresholds, and new beginnings.
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Occurrences in Scripture
40 total occurrences across the text
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 24:33Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Matthew 25:10While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
Matthew 28:2Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.
Mark 1:33All the city was gathered together at the door.
Mark 2:2Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
Mark 15:46He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
Mark 11:4They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
Mark 13:29even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.
Mark 16:3They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”
Luke 11:7and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?
Luke 13:24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
Luke 13:25When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
Luke 13:25When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
Acts 3:2A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
John 10:1“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 10:2But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John 10:7Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
John 10:9I 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 18:16but 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 20:19When 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 middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
John 20:26After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
Acts 5:9But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
Acts 5:19But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,
Acts 5:23“We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”
Acts 12:6The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
Acts 12:13When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
Acts 16:26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
Acts 16:27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
Acts 21:30All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
1 Corinthians 16:9for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
2 Corinthians 2:12Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
Colossians 4:3praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,
James 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
Revelation 3:8“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.
Revelation 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
Revelation 4:1After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”