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# שֹׁועֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7778

**porter** — used 37 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

porter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7778/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁעֵר: n.m. porter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7778/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. porter (denom. from 1. שַׁעַר);—abs. שׁוֹ׳ 2 Ch 31:14, cstr. שֹׁ׳ 2 K 7:10; 1 Ch 9:21, + f. שׁוֹעֶ֫רֶת 2 S 4:6 (for MT בֹּאוּ עַד תּ\[וֹךְ\]) We Dr HPS Bu Now after 𝔊 (Th פְּקִידַת דֶּלֶת); pl. שֹׁעֲרִים 2 K 7:11 + cstr. שֹׁעֲרֵי 2 Ch 23:4;—porter of city gate 2 K 7:10, 11 (2 S 18:26 read הַשַּׁעַר 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Th We Dr and most); portress of houses 2 S 4:6 (v. supr.); elsewhere (34 times Ch Ezr Ne) of gate-keepers in sanctuary 1 Ch 9:17, 18, 24 +; 4,000 in no., 23:5; שׁ׳ פֶּתַח לְאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד 9:21; שֹׁעֲרִים בַּסִּפִּים v 22; שׁ׳ לָאָרוֹן 15:23, 24; שֹׁעֲרֵי הַסִּפִּים 2 Ch 23:4; בְּנֵי הַשֹּׁעֲרִים Ezr 2:42.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (20 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gatekeepers (26); the gatekeepers (4); gatekeeper (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 9:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.21/#tree)

זְכַרְיָה֙ בֶּ֣ן מְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֔ה שֹׁעֵ֥ר פֶּ֖תַח לְאֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* Zechariah the.son of.Meshelemiah \[was\].a.gatekeeper of.the.entrance of the.tent of.meeting

*JPS 1917:* Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.

[1 Chronicles 15:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.23/#tree)

וּבֶֽרֶכְיָה֙ וְאֶלְקָנָ֔ה שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים לָאָרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Berekiah and Elkanah gatekeepers for the ark

*JPS 1917:* And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7778.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7778/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).