αὐλή,
-ῆς,
ἡ, (
ἄω to blow; hence) properly,
a place open to the air (διαπνεόμενος τόπος αὐλὴ λέγεται,
Athen. 5, 15, p. 189 b.);
1. among the Greeks in Homer's time
an uncovered space around the house, enclosed by a wall, in which the stables stood (Homer, Odyssey 9, 185; Iliad 4, 433); hence, among the Orientals that
roofless enclosure in the open country in which flocks were herded at night, a sheepfold:
John 10:1,
16.
2. the uncovered court-yard of the house, Hebrew
חָצֵר, the
Sept. αὐλή,
Vulg. atrium. In the
O. T. particularly of the courts of the tabernacle and of the temple at Jerusalem; so in the
N. T. once:
Revelation 11:2 (
τὴν αὐλὴν τήν ἔξωθεν [
Rec.st ἔσωθεν]
τοῦ ναοῦ). The dwellings of the higher classes usually had two
αὐλαί, one exterior, between the door and the street, called also
προαύλιον (which see); the other interior, surrounded by the buildings of the dwelling itself. The latter is mentioned
Matthew 26:69 (where
ἔξω is opposed to the room in which the judges were sitting);
Mark 14:66;
Luke 22:55. Cf.
Winers RWB under the word Häuser; [
B. D. American edition under the word Court;
BB. DD. under the word House].
3. the house itself, a palace:
Matthew 26:3,
58;
Mark 14:54;
Mark 15:16;
Luke 11:21;
John 18:15, and so very often in Greek writings from Homer, Odyssey 4, 74 down [cf. Eustathius 1483, 39
τῷ τῆς αὐλῆς ὀνόματι τὰ δώματα δηλοῖ, Suidas col. 652 c.
αὐλή·
ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως οἰκία. Yet this sense is denied to the
N. T. by Meyer neuter plural; see Meyer on Matthew, the passage cited].
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