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gates

Meaning of “gates”

Movable barriers and the entrances they close in walls, cities, courts, houses, or enclosed places; by extension, the city, jurisdiction, public place, or access represented by those entrances.

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144 occurrences132 verses25 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 20:10

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Revelation 21:12
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Revelation 21:12 · retained source text

And had a wall great and high, and had twelue gates, and at the gates twelue Angels, & names written thereon, which are the names of the twelue tribes of the children of Israel.

Revelation 21:13
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
4 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Revelation 21:13 · retained source text

On the East three gates, on the North three gates, on the South three gates, and on the West three gates.

Revelation 21:15
And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Revelation 21:15 · retained source text

And hee that talked with mee, had a golden reede to measure the citie, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

Revelation 21:21
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Revelation 21:21 · retained source text

And the twelue gates were twelue pearles, euery seuerall gate was of one pearle, and the streete of the city was pure golde, as it were transparent glasse.

Revelation 21:25
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Revelation 21:25 · retained source text

And the gates of it shall not bee shut at all by day: for there shall bee no night there.

1611 marginal noteEsai. 60.11.

Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Revelation 22:14 · retained source text

Blessed are they that do his commandements, that they may haue right to the tree of life, and may enter in thorow the gates into the citie.

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