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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 Box2Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman cried at the gate, and said, And look, another man running alone. And the king said, He also brings glad tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they [fn]went and cried toward the gate of the city, and reported to them, saying, We went into the camp of Syria, and, behold, there is not there a man, nor voice of man, only [fn]horses tied and [fn]asses, and their tents as they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11 - And the porters cried aloud, and reported to the house of the king within.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17 - The door-keepers; Salom, Acum, Telmon, and Diman, and their brethren; Salom was the chief;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - and he waited hitherto in the king's gate eastward: these are the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:21 - Zacharias the son of Mosollami was keeper of the door of the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All the chosen porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve, these were in their courts, this was their distribution: these David and Samuel the seer established in their charge.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gates were toward the four winds, eastward, westward, northward, southward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26 - For four strong men have the charge of the gates; and the Levites were over the chambers, and they keep watch over the treasures of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:18 - and with them their brethren of the second rank, Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jeiel, and Elioel, and Eliab, and Banaia, and Maasaia, and Matthathia, and Eliphena, and Makellia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, the porters.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:23 - And Barachia and Elcana were door-keepers of the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:24 - And Somnia, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and Zacharia, and Banæa, and Eliezer, the priests, were sounding with trumpets before the ark of God: and Abdedom and Jeia were door-keepers of the ark of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38 - And Abdedom and his brethren were sixty and eight; and Abdedom the son of Idithun, and Osa, were to be door-keepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - and four thousand door-keepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:1 - And for the divisions of the gates: the sons of the Corites were Mosellemia, of the sons of Asaph.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12 - To these were assigned the divisions of the gates, to the chiefs of the mighty men the daily courses, even their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:19 - These are the divisions of the porters for the sons of Core, and to the sons of Merari.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - And he established, according to the order of his father David, the courses of the priests, and that according to their public ministrations: and the Levites were appointed over their charges, to praise and minister before the priests according to the daily order: and the porters were appointed according to their courses to the different gates: for thus were the commandments of David the man of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4 - Now this is the thing which ye shall do. Let a third part of you, even of the priests and of the Levites, enter in on the sabbath, even into the gates of the entrances;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19 - And the porters stood at the gates of the house of the Lord, that no one unclean in any respect should enter in.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - And Core, the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter eastward, was over the gifts, to distribute the first-fruits of the Lord, and the most holy things,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - And overseers were over the burden-bearers, and over all the workmen in the respective works; and of the Levites were appointed scribes, and judges, and porters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers were at their post according to the commands of David, and Asaph, and Æman, and Idithom, the prophets of the king: also the chiefs and the porters of the several gates;—it was not for them to stir from the service of the holy things, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:42 - The children of the porters, the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Acub, the children of Atita, the children of Sobai, in all 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 some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - And some of the children of Israel went up, and some of the priests, and of the Levites, and the singers, and the door-keepers, and the Nathinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Arthasastha the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:24 - And of the singers; Elisab: and of the porters; Solmen, and Telmen, and Oduth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:1 - And 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 BoxNeh 7:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:45 - The porters; the children of Salum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Acub, the children of Atita, the children of Sabi, a hundred and thirty-eight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - And the priests, and Levites, and porters, and singers, and some of the people, and the Nathinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - (LXX 10:29) And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nathinim, and every one who drew off from the nations of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - (LXX 10:40) For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring into the treasuries the first-fruits of the corn, and wine, and oil; and there are the holy vessels, and the priests, and the ministers, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19 - And the porters; Acub, Telamin, and their brethren, a hundred and seventy-two.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25 - When I gathered the porters,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - And they kept the charges of their God, and the charges of the purification, and ordered the singers and the porters, according to the commandments of David and his son Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47 - And all Israel in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Neemias, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, a daily rate: and consecrated them to the Levites: and the Levites consecrated them to the sons of Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first-fruits of the priests.
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