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Lexicon :: Strong's H7778 - šôʿēr

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שׁוֹעֵר
Transliteration
šôʿēr
Pronunciation
sho-are'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2437b

Strong’s Definitions

שׁוֹעֵר shôwʻêr, sho-are'; or שֹׁעֵר shôʻêr active participle of H8176 (as denominative from H8179); a janitor:—doorkeeper, porter.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H7778 in the following manner: porter (35x), doorkeepers (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H7778 in the following manner: porter (35x), doorkeepers (2x).

  1. gatekeeper, porter

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שׁוֹעֵר shôwʻêr, sho-are'; or שֹׁעֵר shôʻêr active participle of H8176 (as denominative from H8179); a janitor:—doorkeeper, porter.
STRONGS H7778: Abbreviations
שֹׁעֵר 37 noun masculine porter (denominative from שַׁעַר); — absolute שׁוֺ׳ 2 Chronicles 31:14, construct שֹׁ׳ 2 Kings 7:10; 1 Chronicles 9:21, + feminine שׁוֺעֶ֫רֶת 2 Samuel 4:6 (for MT [וֺךְ] בֹּאוּ עַד תּ) We Dr HPS Bu Now after Greek Version of the LXX (Th מְּקִידַת דֶּלֶת); plural שֹׁעֲרִים 2 Kings 7:11 +; construct שֹׁעֲרֵי 2 Chronicles 23:4; — porter of city gate 2 Kings 7:10, 11 (2 Samuel 18:26 read הַשַּׁעַר Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Th We Dr and most); portress of house 2 Samuel 4:6 (see above); elsewhere (34 times Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah) of gate-keepers in sanctuary 1 Chronicles 9:17, 18, 24 +; 4,000 in number, 1 Chronicles 23:5; שׁ׳ מוֺעֵד לְאֹהֶל פֶּתַח 1 Chronicles 9:21; בַּסִפִּים שֹׁעֲרִים 1 Chronicles 9:22; לָאָרוֺן שׁ׳ 1 Chronicles 15:23, 24; הַסִפִּים שֹׁעֲרֵי 2 Chronicles 23:4; בְּנֵי הַשֹּׁעֲרִים Ezra 2:42.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

4:6; 4:6; 18:26

2 Kings

7:10; 7:10; 7:11; 7:11

1 Chronicles

9:17; 9:18; 9:21; 9:21; 9:22; 9:24; 15:23; 15:24; 23:5

2 Chronicles

23:4; 23:4; 31:14

Ezra

2:42

H7778

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7778 matches the Hebrew שׁוֹעֵר (šôʿēr),
which occurs 37 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, “See, another man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11 - Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king’s household.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17 - The gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum was the chief);

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - until then they were in the king’s gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21 - Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were 212. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26 - for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:18 - and with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:23 - Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24 - Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38 - and also Obed-edom and his[fn] sixty-eight brothers, while Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1 - As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12 - These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brothers did, ministering in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:19 - These were the divisions of the gatekeepers among the Korahites and the sons of Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4 - This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19 - He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the LORD and the most holy offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:42 - The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all 139.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:70

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70 - Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel[fn] in their towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24 - Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1 - Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:45 - The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:73

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - “The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19 - The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were 172.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25 - Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47 - And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.
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