Gate
שַׁ֫עַרStrong’s H8179shaar (sha-ar)
Appears in 302 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaar is the Hebrew word usually translated “gate of”, “gate” and “gates your”. It appears in 302 verses of the Old Testament.
“These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:”
Meaning
- Gategate (of entrance) · gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) · gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle) · heaven
How it's translated
- gate of 93
- the gate 59
- in gates your 21
- at gate of 18
- gates of 17
- gate 17
- in the gate 14
- gates your 13
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 59
- Deuteronomy 33
- Nehemiah 31
- Jeremiah 25
- 2 Chronicles 15
- 2 Kings 13
29 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:10In contextAll the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.
- Genesis 19:1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
- Genesis 22:17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
- Genesis 23:10And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
- Genesis 23:18Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
- Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
All 302 verses, by book
- Numbers 1
- 4:26
- Deuteronomy 33
- 5:146:911:2012:1212:1512:1712:1812:2114:2114:2714:2814:2915:715:2216:516:1116:1416:1817:217:517:818:621:1922:1522:2423:1624:1425:726:1228:5228:5528:5731:12
- Nehemiah 31
- 1:32:32:82:132:142:152:173:13:33:63:133:143:153:263:283:293:313:326:17:38:18:38:1611:1912:2512:3012:3112:3712:3913:1913:22
- Song of Solomon 1
- 7:4
- Jeremiah 25
- 1:157:214:215:717:1917:2017:2117:2417:2517:2719:220:222:222:422:1926:1031:3831:4036:1037:1338:739:339:451:5852:7
- Ezekiel 59
- 8:38:58:149:210:1911:121:1521:2226:1040:340:640:740:840:940:1040:1140:1340:1440:1540:1640:1840:1940:2040:2140:2240:2340:2440:2740:2840:3240:3540:3840:3940:4040:4140:4440:4842:1543:143:444:144:244:344:444:1144:1745:1946:146:246:346:846:946:1246:1947:248:3148:3248:3348:34
- Zephaniah 1
- 1:10
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫עַר shaar · gate
: gate 1) gate 1a) gate (of entrance) 1b) gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) 1b1) city, town 1c) gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle) 1d) heaven
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GATE, noun
- A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice.
- A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground; also, the passage.
- The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.
- An avenue; an opening; a way.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.