Topic
Beautiful gate
1 passage cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- Acts 3:2Easton
And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
The name of one of the gates of the temple (Acts 3:2). It is supposed to have been the door which led from the court of the Gentiles to the court of the women. It was of massive structure, and covered with plates of Corinthian brass.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
bu'-ti-fool, gat.
See TEMPLE.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.