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Lexicon :: Strong's H7778 - šôʿēr

Aa
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 Box2Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - Then the watchman saw another man running: and crying out in the direction of the door he said, Here is another man running by himself. And the king said, He, like the other, comes with news.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came in, and, crying out to the door-keepers of the town, they gave them the news, saying, We came to the tents of the Aramaeans, and there was no one there and no voice of man, only the horses and the asses in their places, and the tents as they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11 - Then the door-keepers, crying out, gave the news to those inside the king's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17 - And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21 - Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26 - For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:18 - And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani 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 door-keepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:23

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24 - And Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, made music on the horns before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38 - And Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, with their brothers, sixty-eight of them, to be door-keepers:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1 - For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12 - Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:19 - These were the divisions of door-keepers, of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4 - This is what you are to do: let a third of you, of the priests and Levites, who come in on the Sabbath, keep the doors;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19 - And he put door-keepers at the doors of the Lord's house, to see that no one who was unclean in any way might come in.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - Had authority over the transport workers, giving directions to all who were doing any sort of work; and among the Levites there were scribes and overseers and door-keepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:42 - The children of the door-keepers: 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 and thirty-nine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:70 - So the priests and the Levites and the people and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, took up their places in their towns; even all Israel in their towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24 - And of the music-makers, Eliashib; and of the door-keepers, Shallum and Telem and Uri.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1 - Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:45 - The door-keepers: 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 and thirty-eight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim, and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and wisdom;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19 - In addition the door-keepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers who kept watch at the doors, were a hundred and seventy-two.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - And they kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean, and so did the music-makers and the door-keepers, as it was ordered by David and Solomon his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47 - And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.
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