shoer · gatekeeper

What it means

shoer (שׁוֹעֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gatekeeper”.

One who guards the gate of a city, a palace or the temple. In Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah it is an office of the Levites.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One who guards the gate of the city or temple.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gatekeepers ×34
• gatekeeper ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×14
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Ezra×4
• Nehemiah×10

• 2 Samuel 18:26

  The watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, “Look, a man running alone!” The king said, “This one too is bringing news.”

• 2 Kings 7:10

  They came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, “We came to the camp of Aram, and there was no one there, not a human sound, but only the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”

• 2 Kings 7:11

  The gatekeepers called out, and they told it to the king’s household inside.

• 1 Chronicles 9:17

  And the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, and Ahiman; and their brother Shallum was the head,

• 1 Chronicles 9:18

  and until now he is at the gate of the King, on the east. They were the gatekeepers for the camps of the sons of Levi.

• 1 Chronicles 9:21

  Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• 1 Chronicles 9:22

  All of them who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled in the genealogy in their villages; David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.

• 1 Chronicles 9:24

  Toward the four winds were the gatekeepers: east, west, north, and south.

• 1 Chronicles 9:26

  for in an office of trust were they, the four mighty ones of the gatekeepers, who were the Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house of Elohim.

• 1 Chronicles 15:18

  and with them their brothers of the second rank: Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.

• 1 Chronicles 15:23

  And Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark.

• 1 Chronicles 15:24

  And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were blowing the trumpets before the ark of Elohim; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark.

• 1 Chronicles 16:38

  and Obed-edom and their brothers, sixty-eight; and Obed-edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, as gatekeepers;

• 1 Chronicles 23:5

  and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand praising YHWH with the instruments that I made for praising.

• 1 Chronicles 26:1

  For the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

• 1 Chronicles 26:12

  These divisions of the gatekeepers, by the heads of the men, had charges just as their brothers, to minister in the house of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 26:19

  These are the divisions of the gatekeepers of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari.

• 2 Chronicles 8:14

  According to the rule of David his father he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their posts, to praise and to minister in front of the priests according to what was due each day, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for gate by gate, for so was the commandment of David, the man of Elohim.

• 2 Chronicles 23:4

  This is the thing that you are to do: a third of you, those who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, will be gatekeepers of the thresholds;

• 2 Chronicles 23:19

  He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of YHWH, so that no unclean person would enter for any reason.

• 2 Chronicles 31:14

  Kore son of Imnah, the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east, was over the freewill offerings of Elohim, to give the contribution of YHWH and the most holy things.

• 2 Chronicles 34:13

  were over the carriers and were directing all who did work in every service; and of the Levites there were scribes, supervisors, and gatekeepers.

• 2 Chronicles 35:15

  The singers, the sons of Asaph, were at their post, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the seer of the king; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. There was no need for them to turn away from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

• Ezra 2:42

  The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai; all of them, one hundred thirty-nine.

• Ezra 2:70

  So the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

• Ezra 7:7

  And there went up some of the sons of Israel and of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the gatekeepers and the Nethinim to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

• Ezra 10:24

  And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

• Nehemiah 7:1

  It happened that when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites were appointed.

• Nehemiah 7:45

  The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.

• Nehemiah 7:73

  So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the Nethinim, and all Israel lived in their cities. And the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in their cities.

• Nehemiah 10:28

  And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of Elohim, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all who knew how to understand,

• Nehemiah 10:39

  For to the chambers the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the oil; and there are the utensils of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. And we will not abandon the house of our Elohim.

• Nehemiah 11:19

  And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who stood guard at the gates: one hundred seventy-two.

• Nehemiah 12:25

  Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were guards, gatekeepers, keeping watch at the storehouses of the gates.

• Nehemiah 12:45

  And they kept the charge of their Elohim and the charge of the purification, and the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son.

• Nehemiah 12:47

  And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, were giving the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, what was due each day on its day; and they consecrated them for the Levites, and the Levites consecrated them for the sons of Aaron.

• Nehemiah 13:5

  had made for him a large chamber, where previously they had been putting the grain offering, the frankincense, and the utensils, and the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, what was commanded for the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the contribution of the priests.