HALL.See Prætorium.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Hebrew: aulee, the "court" or "uncovered space", on a lower level than the lowest floor, in the midst of a house, as the high priest's (Luk_22:55). The "porch" (proaulion) was the vestibule leading to it (Mar_14:68). Also called puloon, the "gate" or "porch" (Mat_26:71).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hall. Used of the court of the high priest's house. Luk_22:55. In Mat_27:27 and Mar_15:16, "hall" is synonymous with "praetorium", which in Joh_18:28 is, in the Authorized Version, "judgment hall".
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
hôl (Luk_22:55 the King James Version). See HOUSE.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hall
occurs in the A.V. of the N.T. three times; twice (Mat_27:27; Mar_15:16) in reference to the πραίτωριον, praetorium, or residence of the Roman governor at Jerusalem, which was either the palace built by the elder Herod, or the tower of Antonia; his usual abode was at Csesarea (Act_23:23). Mark adds to the word αὐλή, as he is wont in other cases, an explanatory phrase, ὅ ἐστι πραιτώριον (Vulg. atrium praetorii). In Luk_22:55, αύλή) means the open court or quadrangle belonging to the high priest's house, such as was common to Oriental dwellings. It has the same meaning in Mat_26:69, and Mar_14:66, and in both passages is incorrectly rendered palace in the A.V., as the adverbs ἔξω and κάτω plainly distinguish the αύλή from the οῖκος to which it was attached (Luk_22:54). So in Luk_11:21. In Joh_10:1; Joh_10:16, it means a sheep-fold, and in Rev_11:2, the outer court of the Temple. The αὐλή was entered from the street by a προαύλιον or vestibule (Mar_14:68), through a πυλών or portal (Mat_26:71), in which was a θύρα or wicket (Joh_18:16; Act_12:13). Kitto. s.v. Αὐλή is the equivalent for חָצֵר, an enclosed or fortified space (Gesenius, Tesaur. p. 512), in many places in the O.T. where the Vulg. and A. Vers. have respectively villa or viculus, village, or atritum, court, chiefly of the tabernacle or Temple. See Coar. The hall or court of a house or palace would probably be an enclosed but uncovered space, implucium , on a lower level than the apartments of the lowest floor which looked into it. SEE HOUSE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.