Floor-level breaches in a wall with openable barriers. The biblical use of the term is both literal and symbolic. Among the literal uses, one finds doors to houses (Gen 19:6), which could be broken in during assault (Gen 19:9); doors used for signs for deliverance (Exod 12:23) or bondage (Deut 15:17) or work zones (Neh 3:20); doors used for assignations (Job 31:9); and doors built unwisely (Prov 17:19), closed for privacy (Matt 6:6; Luke 11:7), and pounded upon to rouse occupants (Luke 13:25). Symbolically, doors were places where sin lay in wait (Gen 4:7), the apertures through which speech made its exit (Ps 141:3), the model of sluggish action (Prov 26:14), an access route for hope (Hos 2:15), the narrow passage to eternal life (Luke 13:24), the right access to the human community of the church (John 10:1), the access route of faith among the Gentiles (Acts 14:27), opportunity to proclaim the gospel (2Cor 2:12), and the route of access to one’s life (Rev 3:12).
