H7778 שׁוֹעֵר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 37 KJV occurrences
שׁוֹעֵר
shôwʻêr · sho-are'
Definition
a janitor
KJV Renderings
doorkeeper, porter.
Derivation / Etymology
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 37)
- 2 Samuel 18:26And 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.
- 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 15:18And 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.
- 1 Chronicles 23:5Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
- 2 Chronicles 23:4This 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;
- Ezra 2:42¶ The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
- Nehemiah 7:1Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
- Nehemiah 11:19Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.