Word Summary
eisodos: an entrance, a means or place of entering
Original Word: εἴσοδοςTransliteration: eisodos
Phonetic Spelling: (ice'-od-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: an entrance, a means or place of entering
Meaning: an entrance, a means or place of entering
Strong's Concordance
coming, entering into.
From eis and hodos; an entrance (literally or figuratively) -- coming, enter(-ing) in (to).
see GREEK eis
see GREEK hodos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1529: εἴσοδοςεἴσοδος,
εἰσόδου,
ἡ (
ὁδός) (from
Homer on),
an entrance, i. e. both
the place or way leading into a place (as, a gate), and
the act of entering; only in the latter sense in the N. T. With the genitive of place,
τῶν ἁγίων, entrance into the holy place, i. e. reception into heaven,
Hebrews 10:19 (but in 20 apparently called
ὁδός);
εἰς τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ κυρίου,
2 Peter 1:11; of the act of coming forward to administer an office,
Acts 13:24; with
πρός τινα added,
1 Thessalonians 1:9;
1 Thessalonians 2:1.