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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Porter:

a gate-keeper (2Sa 18:26; 2Ki 7:10; 1Ch 9:21; 2Ch 8:14). Of the Levites, 4,000 were appointed as porters by David (1Ch 23:5), who were arranged according to their families (26:1-19) to take charge of the doors and gates of the temple. They were sometimes employed as musicians (1Ch 15:18).

King James Dictionary

Porter: A Doorkeeper; Gatekeeper.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the PORTER openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. (John 10:1-3)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g2377 Greek: thuroros

Porter:

"a door-keeper" (thura, "a door," ouros, "a guardian"), is translated "porter" in Mar 13:34; Jhn 10:3; it is used of a female in Jhn 18:16, 17, translated "(her) that kept the door." In the Sept., 2Sa 4:6; 2Ki 7:11; Eze 44:11.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Porter:

This word when used in the Authorized Version does not bear its modern signification of a carrier of burdens, but denotes in every case a gate‐keeper, from the Latin portarius, the man who attended to the porta or gate.

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