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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

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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 - Then the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper H7778 and said, “Behold, another man is running by himself.” And the king said, “This one also is bringing good news.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers H7778 of the city, and told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor a human voice; only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11 - And the gatekeepers H7778 called and announced it inside the king’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17 -

Now the gatekeepers H7778 were [fn]Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives (Shallum the chief

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - being stationed until now at the king’s gate to the east). These were the gatekeepers H7778 for the camp of the sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21 - Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper H7778 of the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - Those who were chosen to be gatekeepers H7778 at the thresholds were 212 in all. They were registered by genealogy in their settlements, those whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their official capacity.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gatekeepers H7778 were [fn]on the four sides, to the 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 H7778, who were Levites, served in an official capacity, and were in charge of the chambers and in charge of the treasuries in the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:18 - and with them their relatives of the second rank, Zechariah, [fn]Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers H7778.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:23 - Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers H7778 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, blew the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah also were gatekeepers H7778 for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38 - and Obed-edom with [fn]his sixty-eight relatives; Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah as gatekeepers H7778.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - and four thousand were gatekeepers H7778, and four thousand were praising the LORD with the instruments which [fn]David made for giving praise.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1 -

For the divisions of the gatekeepers H7778 there were of the Korahites, [fn]Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of [fn]Asaph.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12 -

To these divisions of the gatekeepers H7778, to the chief men, were given duties like their relatives, to serve 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 H7778 of the sons of Korah and of the sons of Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 -

Now according to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their duties of praise and ministering before the priests according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers H7778 by their divisions at every gate; for this is what 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 which you shall do: a third of you, of the priests and Levites who come in on the Sabbath, shall be gatekeepers H7778,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19 - He stationed the gatekeepers H7778 of the house of the LORD, so that no one would enter who was in any way unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper H7778 of the eastern gate, was in charge of the [fn]voluntary offerings for God, to distribute the contributions for the LORD and the most holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - They were also in charge of the burden bearers, and supervised all the workmen from job to job; and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers H7778.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at their positions according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers H7778 at each gate did not have to leave their service, because their kinsmen 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 H7778: 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, 139 in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:70

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70 -

Now the priests and the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers H7778, and the temple servants lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - Some of the sons of Israel and some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers H7778, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24 -

Of the singers there was Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers H7778: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1 -

Now when the wall was rebuilt and I had installed the doors, and the gatekeepers H7778, the singers, and the Levites were appointed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:45 - The gatekeepers H7778: 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 BoxNeh 7:73 -

Now the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers H7778, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel lived in their cities.

And when the seventh month came, the sons of Israel were in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 -

Now the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers H7778, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the chambers; the utensils of the sanctuary, the priests who are ministering, the gatekeepers H7778, and the singers are there. So we will not [fn]neglect the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19 -

Also the gatekeepers H7778: Akkub, Talmon, and their kinsmen 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 H7778 keeping watch at the storerooms of the gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - For they performed the [fn]worship of their God and the service of purification, together with the singers and the gatekeepers H7778 in accordance with the command of David and of his son Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47 - So all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah gave the portions due the singers and the gatekeepers H7778 as each day required, and they [fn]set apart the consecrated portion for the Levites, and the Levites [fn]set apart the consecrated portion for the sons of Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - had prepared a large [fn]room for him, where previously they used to put the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers H7778, and the [fn]contributions for the priests.
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