2 Kings 7:11
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
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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 new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
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שׁוֹעֵר
shôwʻêr · sho-are'
31 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
a janitor
Strong's KJV usage: doorkeeper, porter.
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Strong's first: 2 Kings 7:11Strong's last: Nehemiah 13:5
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shaʻar · shah'-ar
1 times translated as this KJV form371 total Strong's occurrences
an opening, i.e. door or gate
Strong's KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (× -er).
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 16:42Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 16:42
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târâʻ · taw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a doorkeeper
Strong's KJV usage: porter.
Strong's first: Ezra 7:24Strong's last: Ezra 7:24
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H7778
Now 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,
H7778
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, an hundred thirty and eight.
H7778
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
H7778
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 the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
H7778
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
H7778
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
H7778
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
H7778
And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
H7778
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
H7778
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 new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
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porter
PORTER, noun [Latin porta, a gate.]
1. A man that has the charge of a door or gate; a door-keeper.
2. One that waits at the door to receive messages.
3. [Latin porto.] A carrier; a person who carries or conveys burdens for hire.
4. A malt liquor which differs from ale and pale beer, in being made with high dried malt.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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