αὐλή: Difference between revisions

|txtha=αὐλῆς, ἡ (ἄω to [[blow]]; [[hence]]) [[properly]], a [[place]] [[open]] to the [[air]] (διαπνεόμενος [[τόπος]] [[αὐλή]] λέγεται, Athen. 5,15, p. 189b.);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[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: 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]]: [[τήν]] αὐλήν [[τήν]] [[ἔξωθεν]] ( 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 [[ἔξω]] is opposed to the [[room]] in [[which]] the judges were [[sitting]]); Winer s RWB [[under]] the [[word]] Häuser; (B. D. American edition [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Court; BB. DD. [[under]] the [[word]] House>).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the [[house]] itself a [[palace]]: [[Homer]], [[Odyssey]] 4,74down (cf. Eustathius 1483,39 τῷ τῆς αὐλῆς ὀνόματι τά δώματα δηλοῖ, Suidas Colossians 652c. [[αὐλή]]. ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως [[οἰκία]]. Yet [[this]] [[sense]] is denied to the N. T. by Meyer et al.; [[see]] Meyer on Matthew, the [[passage]] cited).