Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7778
שֹׁעֵר
sho.er · “gatekeeper”
Used 37 times across 6 books
Definition
gatekeeper, porter
Where it appears
2 Samuel1
2 Kings2
1 Chronicles14
2 Chronicles6
Ezra4
Nehemiah10
In the text
2 Samuel 18:26And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.2 Kings 7:10So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.2 Kings 7:11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.1 Chronicles 9:17And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;1 Chronicles 9:18Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.1 Chronicles 9:21And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.1 Chronicles 9:22All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.1 Chronicles 9:24In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.1 Chronicles 9:26For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.1 Chronicles 15:18And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, the porters.
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