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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
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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;
(4) הַגַּיִא שׁ׳ Nehemiah 2:13, Nehemiah 2:15, Nehemiah 3:13; 2 Chronicles 26:9;
(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

H8179

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Strong's Number H8179 matches the Hebrew שַׁעַר (šaʿar),
which occurs 41 times in 31 verses in 'Neh' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - They said to me, "The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - I replied to the king, "O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors lies desolate and its gates destroyed by fire?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king's nature preserve, so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall and for the house to which I go." So the king granted me these requests, for the good hand of my God was on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King's Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, "You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let's rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue."

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:1 - Then Eliashib the high priest and his priestly colleagues arose and built the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and erected its doors, working as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:3 - The sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:6 - Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:13 - Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked on the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars, in addition to working on fifteen hundred feet of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:14 - Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 - Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:26 - and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:28 - Above the Horse Gate the priests worked, each in front of his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:29 - After them Zadok son of Immer worked opposite his house, and after him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, guard at the East Gate, worked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:31 - After him Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, worked as far as the house of the temple servants and the traders, opposite the Inspection Gate, and up to the room above the corner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:32 - And between the room above the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and traders worked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 - When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:3 - I said to them, "The gates of Jerusalem must not be opened in the early morning, until those who are standing guard close the doors and lock them. Position residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their guard stations and some near their homes."

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - all the people gathered together in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought these things back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19 - And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon and their colleagues who were guarding the gates - 172.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25 - Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who were guarding the storerooms at the gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:30 - When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:31 - I brought the leaders of Judah up on top of the wall, and I appointed two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed on the top of the wall southward toward the Dung Gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:37 - They went over the Fountain Gate and continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall. They passed the house of David and continued on to the Water Gate toward the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:39 - over the Ephraim Gate, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate. They stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:19 - When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:22 - Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.
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