שֹׁעֵר shoer

Hebrew word for “gatekeeper” · Strong’s H7778 · used 37 times in 37 verses

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Meaning

gatekeeper, porter

How it is translated

Glosses given for shoer in context, with how often each is used:

• gatekeepers 32
• gatekeeper 4
• will become the gatekeepers 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 9 (6), 1 Chronicles 15 (3), 1 Chronicles 26 (3), Nehemiah 7 (3), Nehemiah 12 (3), 2 Kings 7 (2), 2 Chronicles 23 (2), Ezra 2 (2), Nehemiah 10 (2), 2 Samuel 18 (1)

Forms

• השׁערים 10
• והשׁערים 6
• והשׁוערים 5
• לשׁערים 3
• שׁערים 3
• השׁוערים 3
• שׁער 2
• השׁער 1
• לשׁערי 1
• השׁוער 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shoer more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שִׁיר shir “to sing” 11
• לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 13
• טַלְמוֹן talmon “Talmon” 5
• עַקּוּב aqquv “Akkub” 5
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 9
• נְתִינִים natin “temple servant” 4
• שַׁלּוּם shallum “Shallum” 4
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 6
• מַחֲלֹקֶת machaloqet “division” 4
• אָח ach “brother” 6
• עֹבֵד אֱדוֹם oved edom “Obed-edom” 3
• מִצְוָה mitsvah “commandment” 4

Key verses

The verses using shoer that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Chronicles 9:22 — All 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…
• 1 Chronicles 15:18 — And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and…
• 1 Chronicles 15:24 — And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of…
• 1 Chronicles 23:5 — Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
• 1 Chronicles 26:1 — Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
• 2 Chronicles 8:14 — And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and…
• 2 Chronicles 31:14 — And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most…
• 2 Chronicles 34:13 — Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes,…
• 2 Chronicles 35:15 — And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the…
• Ezra 7:7 — And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in…
• Nehemiah 10:28 — And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of…
• Nehemiah 13:5 — And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.