Gatekeeper
שֹׁעֵרStrong’s H7778shoer (sho-er)
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shoer is the Hebrew word usually translated “gatekeepers”, “gatekeeper” and “gatekeeper of”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.”
Meaning
- Gatekeeper, porter
How it's translated
- the gatekeepers 13
- and the gatekeepers 11
- gatekeepers 4
- the gatekeeper 2
- to gatekeepers 2
- gatekeeper of 1
- a gatekeeper of 1
- of gatekeepers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 14
- Nehemiah 10
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Ezra 4
- 2 Kings 2
- 2 Samuel 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 7:10So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
- 2 Kings 7:11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
- 1 Chronicles 9:18Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
- 1 Chronicles 9:21And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
Hebrew dictionary
שֹׁעֵר shoer · gatekeeper
gatekeeper, porter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.