pyle

πύλης: [4 verses](noun sg fem gen) "Gate" is pyle, which means "one wing of a pair of double gates," "gates of a town," "house-door," "gate or door leading to the women's apartments," "gates of the nether world," "custom-house," "entrance," "orifice," "entrance into a country through mountains," "pass," and "narrow straits."  - The term translated here as "gate" means specifically one side of a double gate that served as the entry to a town or large building. It was also frequently the location of a toll booth, changing a tax for entry into a town. The term also meant special doors or gates such as those to the women's quarters or the gates of hell. These gates were a point of control and authority.