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Lexicon :: Strong's H8179 - šaʿar

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שַׁעַר
Transliteration
šaʿar
Pronunciation
shah'-ar
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From שָׁעַר (H8176) in its original sense
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2437a

Strong’s Definitions

שַׁעַר shaʻar, shah'-ar; from H8176 in its original sense; an opening, i.e. door or gate:—city, door, gate, port (× -er).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 371x

The KJV translates Strong's H8179 in the following manner: gate (364x), city (3x), door (2x), port (1x), porters (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 371x
The KJV translates Strong's H8179 in the following manner: gate (364x), city (3x), door (2x), port (1x), porters (1x).
  1. gate

    1. gate (of entrance)

    2. gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place)

      1. city, town

    3. gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle)

    4. heaven

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שַׁעַר shaʻar, shah'-ar; from H8176 in its original sense; an opening, i.e. door or gate:—city, door, gate, port (× -er).
STRONGS H8179: Abbreviations
שַׁ֫עַר 373 noun masculine 2 Samuel 18:24 (feminineIsaiah 14:31 in personification, AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 86) gate; — שׁ׳ absolute Judges 9:40 +, construct Genesis 22:17 +; with ה locative, שָׁ֑עְרָה Isaiah 28:6 +; plural שְׁעָרִים 2 Samuel 18:24 +, construct שַׁעֲרֵי 1 Samuel 17:52 +; suffix שְׁעָרֶיךָ Deuteronomy 12:15 +, שַׁעֲרֵיהֶם Ezekiel 21:20; Ezekiel 48:34, etc.; —
1.
a. gate, entrance to city, shut (סָגַר) by night Joshua 2:5, 7 (JE), compare Isaiah 45:1, opened (מָּתַח) by day Nehemiah 7:3, compare Isaiah 60:11; for entrance (בּוֺא), and exit (יָצָא) Jeremiah 17:19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27; Lamentations 4:12; Ezekiel 26:10 +; עָבַר שׁ׳ Micah 2:13 pass out through (disregard accents), בַּשׁ׳ ע׳ Isaiah 62:10; with bars Psalm 147:13; attacked Ezekiel 21:20; Ezekiel 21:27, compare Isaiah 28:6; Micah 1:9, 12; 1 Samuel 17:52; on Judges 5:8, 11 see Commentaries; burned (by foe) Jeremiah 19:27; Jeremiah 51:58; Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 2:3, 13, 17; as giving control, possession, of city, אֹיְבָיו יָרַשׁ אֵת שׁ׳ Genesis 22:17; Genesis 24:60 (J); מֶּתַח הַשּׁ׳ Judges 9:40 + (see פ׳), דַּלְתוֺת הַשּׁ׳ 1 Samuel 21:14 + (see ד׳ 3); מֶּתַחהַֿשּׁ׳ Judges 18:16, 17 of farm or village; so of camp Exodus 32:26, 27 (J). In cities, elaborate structure, with roof 2 Samuel 18:24, upper chamber 2 Samuel 19:1; compare שְׂאוּ שְׁעָרִים רָאשֵׁיכֶם Psalm 24:7; Psalm 24:9; write laws בִּשׁ׳ Deuteronomy 6:9 (+ עַלמְֿזֻזוֺת בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ), Deuteronomy 11:20 (+id..); בְּתוֺךְ הַשּׁ׳ 1 Samuel 9:18, אֶלאתּוֺךְ הַשּׁ׳ 2 Samuel 3:27; (לְ)יַד שׁ׳ as public, 1 Samuel 4:18, + 1 Samuel 4:13 Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr and others, compare 2 Samuel 15:2; 2 Samuel 18:4; Proverbs 8:3 (|| מְבוֺא פְתָחִים).
b. particular gates of Jerusalem are:
(1) אֶפְרַיִם שׁ׳ 2 Kings 14:13 || 2 Chronicles 25:23, Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 12:39;
(2) הָאַשְׁפֹּת שׁ׳ Nehemiah 2:13, Nehemiah 3:14, Nehemiah 12:31=הָֽשְׁפוֹת שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:13;
(3) בִּנְיָמִין שׁ׳ Jeremiah 37:13, Jeremiah 38:7, Zechariah 14:10;
(5) הַדָּגִים שׁ׳ Zephaniah 1:10; Nehemiah 3:3, Nehemiah 12:39; 2 Chronicles 33:14;
(6) הַחֹמֹתַיּם בֵּין שׁ׳ 2 Kings 25:4=Jeremiah 52:7, compare Jeremiah 39:4;
(7) החרסות שׁ׳ Jeremiah 19:2;
(8) הַיְשָׁנָה שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:6, Nehemiah 12:39;
(9) הַמִּוְרָח שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:29;
(10) הַמַּמָּרָה שׁ׳ Nehemiah 12:39;
(11) שׁ׳ הַמָּ֑יִם Nehemiah 8:1, Nehemiah 8:3, Nehemiah 8:16;
(12) לַמִּוְרָ֑ח הַמַּיִם שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:26, compare Nehemiah 12:27;
(13) הַמִּפֳק֑ר שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:31;
(14) הָעַיִן שׁ׳ Nehemiah 2:14, Nehemiah 3:15, Nehemiah 12:37;
(15) הַסּוּםִים שׁ׳ Jeremiah 31:40; Nehemiah 3:28 (compare 3 b);
(16) הַפִּנָה שׁ׳ 2 Kings 14:13||2 Chronicles 25:23 (read הַפִּנָּה for הַפּוֹנֶה), Jeremiah 31:38; 2 Chronicles 26:9; probably = הַפִּנּים שׁ׳ Zechariah 14:10;
(17) הַצּאֹן שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:1, 32; Nehemiah 12:39;
(18) הָרִאשׁוֺן שׁ׳ Zechariah 14:10; — on sites and relation to each other see RS-GASmEncy. Bib. JERUSALEM ConderHast. DB id. BuhlG 133 ff. BdPal. under the word MurrayHd. Bk, under the word BeRyNe p. 182 ff. GuZPV, especially v (1882). 7 ff. viii (1885), 245 ff. Comm.on the passage variant reading.
c. of Ezekiel's holy city, שַׁעֲרֵי הָעִיר Ezekiel 48:31, three on each side, named for tribes, Ezekiel 48:31; Ezekiel 48:31; Ezekiel 48:31; Ezekiel 48:31 + 12 times Ezekiel 48.
2.
a. gate = space inside gate, as public meeting-place, market 2 Kings 7:1, 18, place of public well 2 Samuel 23:15, 16 = 1 Chronicles 11:17, 18, where elders, judges, king, sat officially Deuteronomy 21:19; Deuteronomy 22:15; Amos 5:12, 15; Isaiah 29:21; 2 Samuel 18:24; 2 Samuel 19:9; 1 Kings 22:10 2 Chronicles 18:9; Genesis 19:1 (J) Proverbs 24:7; Job 5:4; Job 31:21; Ruth 4:1 (twice in verse); Proverbs 31:23, 31, etc.; of conqueror Jeremiah 1:15; apparently = רְחוֺב שׁ׳ Genesis 19:2 (J) Nehemiah 8:16; 1 Chronicles 9:16 + (see I. ר׳); Genesis 34:20 (P) one came unto gate (בָּא אֶלֿ), so בָּאֵי שׁ׳ Genesis 23:10, 18 (P) those entering the gate, i.e. having citizens' rights; also went out (to), יָצָא שׁ׳ Job 29:7 (i.e., in this case, from his own house, outside the city), hence כָּליֹֿצְאֵי שׁ׳ Genesis 34:24 (twice in verse) (P; compare also הוֺצִיא אֶלֿ Deuteronomy 21:19; Deuteronomy 22:15, 24); hence = body of citizens, עַמִּי כָּלשֿׁ׳ Ruth 3:11.
b. hence also = city Isaiah 14:31 (|| עִיר), Psalm 87:2, etc.
c. specifically in Deuteronomy, בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ in thy gates, i.e. thy cities, towns, etc., Deuteronomy 5:14 = Exodus 20:10; Deuteronomy 12:12, 15, 17, 21 + 22 times Deuteronomy + 1 Kings 8:37 (read בְּאַחַד שׁ׳, compare Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 23:17, so Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version modern), so || 2 Chronicles 6:28, + (perhaps) Jeremiah 14:2 (but Jeremiah 15:7; Nahum 3:13 figurative of gates as entrance to land); of private house, שַׁעֲרֵי צַדִּיק Proverbs 14:19 (perhaps compare Judges 18:16 1a above).
3.
a. gate of royal castle or palace 2 Kings 9:31; Jeremiah 22:2, 4; Nehemiah 2:8; Esther 2:19 + 10 times Esther; specifically (of king of Judah), סוּר שׁ׳ 2 Kings 11:6 = הַיְסוֺד שׁ׳ 2 Chronicles 23:5 (see ס׳, יס׳), הָרָצִים שׁ׳ 2 Kings 11:19, אַחַר הָר׳ הַשּׁ׳ 2 Kings 11:6; הַסּוּסִים בֵּית הַמּ׳ שׁ׳ 2 Chronicles 23:15 (= מְבוֺא הַסּ׳ || 2 Kings 11:16); apparently of official residence, יְהוֺשֻׁע שׁ׳ פֶּתַח 2 Kings 23:8.
b. of temple Jeremiah 7:2 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 9:23; 1 Chronicles 16:42 + 12 times Chronicles, including שַׁעֲרֵי מַחֲנוֺת י׳ 2 Chronicles 31:2 (see מַחֲנֶה 1, p. 334), compare Psalm 100:4; Psalm 118:20, שַׁעֲרֵי צֶדֶק Psalm 100:19; specifically בִּנְיָמִין הָעֶלְיוֺן שׁ׳ Jeremiah 20:2, and (omit בִּנְי׳) 2 Kings 15:35 2 Chronicles 27:3; Ezekiel 9:2; 2 Chronicles 23:20, הֶחָדָשׁ (בֵּית) י׳ שׁ׳ Jeremiah 26:10; Jeremiah 36:10, הַפּוֹנֶה הַפְּנִימִית שׁ׳ צָפוֺנָה Ezekiel 8:3 compare Ezekiel 8:14, Ezekiel 8:5, הַקַּדְמֹנִי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ שַׁעַר בֵּית י׳ שׁ׳ Ezekiel 10:19; Ezekiel 11:1; שַׁלֶּכֶת שׁ׳ 1 Chronicles 26:16; שַׁעַר הַמֶּלֶח 1 Chronicles 9:18.
c. of Ezekiel's temple and courts Ezekiel 40:3, 6; Ezekiel 44:11, 17 + 67 times Ezekiel 40-47.
d. of court of tabernacle (P), הֶחָצֵר שׁ׳ Exodus 27:16; Exodus 35:17 + 6 times Exodus + Numbers 4:36.
4. figurative הַשָּׁמַיִם זֶה שׁ׳ Genesis 28:17 (E; || בֵּית אֱלֹהִים); plural שַׁעֲרֵי שְׁאוֺל Isaiah 38:10; מָֿוֶת שׁ׳ Job 38:17; Psalm 9:14; Psalm 107:18; צַלְמָוֶת שׁ׳ Job 38:17.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8651.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:1; 19:2; 22:17; 22:17; 23:10; 23:18; 24:60; 28:17; 34:20; 34:24

Exodus

20:10; 27:16; 32:26; 32:27; 35:17

Numbers

4:36

Deuteronomy

5:14; 6:9; 11:20; 12:12; 12:15; 12:15; 12:17; 12:21; 18:6; 21:19; 21:19; 22:15; 22:15; 22:24; 23:17

Joshua

2:5; 2:7

Judges

5:8; 5:11; 9:40; 9:40; 18:16; 18:16; 18:17

Ruth

3:11; 4:1

1 Samuel

4:13; 4:18; 9:18; 17:52; 17:52; 21:14

2 Samuel

3:27; 15:2; 18:4; 18:24; 18:24; 18:24; 18:24; 19:1; 19:9; 23:15; 23:16

1 Kings

8:37; 22:10

2 Kings

7:1; 7:18; 9:31; 11:6; 11:6; 11:16; 11:19; 14:13; 14:13; 15:35; 23:8; 25:4

1 Chronicles

9:16; 9:18; 9:23; 11:17; 11:18; 16:42; 26:16

2 Chronicles

6:28; 18:9; 23:5; 23:15; 23:20; 25:23; 25:23; 26:9; 26:9; 27:3; 31:2; 33:14

Nehemiah

1:3; 2:3; 2:8; 2:13; 2:13; 2:13; 2:14; 2:15; 2:17; 3:1; 3:3; 3:6; 3:13; 3:13; 3:14; 3:15; 3:26; 3:28; 3:29; 3:31; 3:32; 7:3; 8:1; 8:3; 8:16; 8:16; 8:16; 12:27; 12:31; 12:37; 12:39; 12:39; 12:39; 12:39; 12:39

Esther

2:19

Job

5:4; 29:7; 31:21; 38:17; 38:17

Psalms

9:14; 24:7; 24:9; 87:2; 100:4; 107:18; 118:20; 147:13

Proverbs

8:3; 14:19; 24:7; 31:23; 31:31

Isaiah

14:31; 14:31; 28:6; 28:6; 29:21; 38:10; 45:1; 60:11; 62:10

Jeremiah

1:15; 7:2; 14:2; 15:7; 17:19; 17:20; 17:21; 17:24; 17:25; 17:27; 19:2; 20:2; 22:2; 22:4; 26:10; 31:38; 31:40; 36:10; 37:13; 38:7; 39:4; 51:58; 52:7

Lamentations

4:12

Ezekiel

8:3; 8:5; 8:14; 9:2; 10:19; 11:1; 21:20; 21:20; 21:27; 26:10; 40; 40:3; 40:6; 41; 42; 43; 44; 44:11; 44:17; 45; 46; 47; 48:31; 48:31; 48:31; 48:31; 48:31; 48:34

Amos

5:12; 5:15

Micah

1:9; 1:12; 2:13

Nahum

3:13

Zephaniah

1:10

Zechariah

14:10; 14:10; 14:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8179 matches the Hebrew שַׁעַר (šaʿar),
which occurs 375 times in 302 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 7 (Neh 12:37–Isa 60:18)

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:37 -

At the Spring Gate H8179 they went directly up the steps of the city of David by the stairway of the wall above the house of David to the Water Gate H8179 on the east.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:39 - and above the Gate H8179 of Ephraim, by the Old Gate H8179, by the Fish Gate H8179, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate H8179; and they stood at the Gate H8179 of the Guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:19 -

Now it happened that just as it grew dark at the gates H8179 of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I said the word, and the doors were shut. Then I said that they should not open them until after the sabbath. Then I had some of my young men stand at the gates H8179 so that no load would enter on the sabbath day.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:22 - And I said to the Levites that they should cleanse themselves and come as gatekeepers H8179 to keep the sabbath day holy. For this also remember me, O my God, and have compassion on me according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:19 -

And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate H8179.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate H8179, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs from those who were doorkeepers, became furious and sought to send forth their hand against King Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:2 - And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate H8179 were bowing down and prostrating themselves before Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow down or prostrate himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - So the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate H8179 said to Mordecai, “Why do you trespass against the king’s command?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2 - And he went as far as the king’s gate H8179, for no one was to enter the king’s gate H8179 clothed in sackcloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:6 - So Hathach went out to Mordecai to the city square in front of the king’s gate H8179.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:9 -

Then Haman went out that day glad and merry of heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate H8179 and that he did not stand up or [fn]tremble before him, Haman was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13 - “Yet all of this is worth nothing to me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate H8179.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:10 -

Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate H8179; do not fall short in anything of all that you have spoken.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:12 -

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate H8179. But Haman hastened home, mourning, with his head covered.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:4 -

“His sons are far from salvation,

They are even crushed in the gate H8179,

And there is no deliverer.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:7 -

“When I went out to the gate H8179 of the city,

When I [fn]took my seat in the square,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 -

If I have waved my hand against the orphan

Because I saw my help in the gate H8179,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 -

“Have the gates H8179 of death been revealed to you,

Or have you seen the gates H8179 of the shadow of death?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13 -

Heth

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;

See my affliction from those who hate me,

You who lift me up from the gates H8179 of death,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:14 -

That I may recount all Your praises,

That in the gates H8179 of the daughter of Zion

I may rejoice in Your [fn]salvation.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:7 -

Lift up your heads, O gates H8179,

And be lifted up, O [fn]ancient doors,

That the King of glory may come in!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:9 -

Lift up your heads, O gates H8179,

And lift yourselves up, O [fn]ancient doors,

That the King of glory may come in!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:12 -

Those who dwell at the gate H8179 moan about me,

And I am the drunkards’ songs.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:2 -

Yahweh loves the gates H8179 of Zion

More than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:4 -

Enter His gates H8179 with [fn]thanksgiving

And His courts with praise.

Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:18 -

Their soul abhorred all kinds of food,

And they reached the gates H8179 of death.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:19 -

Open to me the gates H8179 of righteousness;

I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to Yah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:20 -

This is the gate H8179 of Yahweh;

The righteous will enter through it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:2 -

Our feet are standing

Within your gates H8179, O Jerusalem,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:5 -

How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them;

They will not be ashamed

When they speak with enemies in the gate H8179.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:13 -

For He strengthened the bars of your gates H8179;

He blessed your sons within you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:21 -

At the head of the noisy streets she calls out;

At the entrance of the gates H8179 in the city she utters her sayings:

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:3 -

Beside the gates H8179, at the opening to the city,

At the entrance of the doors, she makes a shout:

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:19 -

The evil will bow down before the good,

And the wicked at the gates H8179 of the righteous.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:22 -

Do not rob the poor because he is poor,

And do not crush the afflicted at the gate H8179;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:7 -

Wisdom is too exalted for an ignorant fool,

He does not open his mouth in the gate H8179.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:23 -

Nun

Her husband is known in the gates H8179,

When he sits with the elders of the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:31 -

Tav

Give to her from the fruit of her hands,

And let her works praise her in the gates H8179.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 -

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon

By the gate H8179 of Bath-rabbim;

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,

Which faces toward Damascus.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:31 -

“Wail, O gate H8179; cry, O city;

[fn]Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;

For smoke comes from the north,

And there is no straggler in his ranks.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:7 -

Then your choicest valleys were full of chariots,

And the horsemen took up fixed positions at the gate H8179.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:12 -

Desolation remains in the city,

And the gate H8179 is struck down to ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:2 -

“Open the gates H8179, that the righteous nation may enter,

The one that keeps faithfulness.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:6 -

A spirit of just judgment for him who sits in judgment,

A might to those who turn back the [fn]onslaught at the gate H8179.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 -

Who [fn]cause a person to sin by a word,

And ensnare him who reproves at the gate H8179,

And [fn]defraud the one in the right with [fn]meaningless arguments.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:10 -

I said, “In the middle of my [fn]life

I am to enter the gates H8179 of Sheol;

I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 -

Thus says Yahweh to Cyrus His anointed,

Whom I have taken hold of by his right hand,

To subdue nations before him

And [fn]to loose the loins of kings,

To open doors before him so that gates H8179 will not be shut:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12 -

“Moreover, I will make your battlements of [fn]rubies,

And your gates H8179 of [fn]crystal,

And your entire [fn]wall of [fn]precious stones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:11 -

“Your gates H8179 will be open continually;

They will not be closed day or night,

So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations,

With their kings led in procession.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:18 -

“Violence will not be heard again in your land,

Nor devastation or destruction within your borders;

But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates H8179 praise.


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