Door
תְּרַעStrong’s H8651tera (te-ra)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tera is the Aramaic word usually translated “gate” and “door of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.”
Meaning
- Gate, doordoor · gate · court
How it's translated
- in gate 1
- to door of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
תְּרַע tera · door
1) gate, door 1a) door 1b) gate 1c) court
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “door” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DOOR, noun
[G., Gr.]
- An opening or passage into a house, or other building, or into any room, apartment or closet, by which persons enter.
- The frame of boards, or any piece of board or plank that shuts the opening of a house or closes the entrance into an apartment or any inclosure, and usually turning on hinges.
- In familiar language, a house; often in the plural, doors.
- Entrance; as the door of life.
All definitions
- Avenue; passage; means of approach or access.“I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved” John 10:9“A door was opened to me of the Lord” 2 Corinthians 2:12
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.