Strong H7778שֹׁעֵר

Definition

Detailed definition

In the Bible

Strong H7778 appears in 37 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

• porter35
• doorkeeper2

First verses

1. 2 Samuel 18:26
   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.
2. 2 Kings 7:10
   So 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.
3. 2 Kings 7:11
   And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
4. 1 Chronicles 9:17
   And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
5. 1 Chronicles 9:18
   Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
6. 1 Chronicles 9:21
   And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7. 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 Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
8. 1 Chronicles 9:24
   In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
9. 1 Chronicles 9:26
   For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
10. 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 Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, the porters.
11. 1 Chronicles 15:23
    And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
12. 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 God: and Obed–edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
13. 1 Chronicles 16:38
    And Obed–edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed–edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
14. 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.
15. 1 Chronicles 26:1
    Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
16. 1 Chronicles 26:12
    Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.
17. 1 Chronicles 26:19
    These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
18. 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 minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
19. 2 Chronicles 23:4
    This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
20. 2 Chronicles 23:19
    And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

Occurrences by book

• 2 Samuel1
• 2 Kings2
• 1 Chronicles14
• 2 Chronicles6
• Ezra4
• Nehemiah10

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