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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 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So 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 the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11 - And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s household within.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17 - And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21 - Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All these that were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - On the four sides were the porters, toward 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 porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over 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 brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:23 - And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24 - And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38 - and Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1 - For the courses of the doorkeepers: 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 - Of these were the courses of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brethren, to minister in the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:19 - These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4 - This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19 - And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything should enter in.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of Jehovah, and the most holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:42 - The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and nine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:70

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70 - So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24 - And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1 - Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:45 - The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred thirty and eight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:73

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one that had knowledge, and understanding;

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19 - Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25 - Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the store-houses of the gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - And they kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

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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 portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required: 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 - had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.
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