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שַׁעַר

shaar · gate

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8179 · appears 374 times in the Bible

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What it means

shaar (שַׁעַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gate”.

Of a city. It was also the open place where the elders met, business was done and disputes were judged.

How to say it

sha·ar

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. The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
  2. The gate as the place of judgment.
  3. The whole city, which the gates protect.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Gate, above all the gate of a city. BDB defines it as an opening, door or gate.

Historical and cultural background

In Ruth 4:1-11 Boaz goes up to the city gate, gathers ten elders, and there, before witnesses, the matter of the inheritance is settled. Deuteronomy 21:19 also commands that cases be brought “to the elders of his city, to the gate of his place”.

How we translate it

“Gate” 258 times, “gates” 115. “Gate” is kept also where it stands for the whole town (“in all your gates”, Deuteronomy 16:18), because the image is clear.

How it is translated

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

  • gate ×258
  • gates ×115
  • were at each ×1

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Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 19:1

    The two messengers came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

  • Genesis 22:17

    that I will surely bless you and will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the shore of the sea; and your offspring will possess the gate of its enemies.

  • Genesis 23:10

    Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

  • Genesis 23:18

    to Abraham as a purchase in the sight of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

  • Genesis 24:60

    They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate it.”

  • Genesis 28:17

    He was afraid and said, “How fearsome is this place! This is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens.”

  • Genesis 34:20

    So Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

  • Genesis 34:24

    All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

  • Exodus 20:10

    but the seventh day is a Sabbath to YHWH your Elohim. You shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave, or your female slave, or your livestock, or your resident alien who is within your gates.

  • Exodus 27:16

    For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

  • Exodus 32:26

    And Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Whoever is for YHWH, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.

  • Exodus 32:27

    And he said to them, “Thus says YHWH, Elohim of Israel: ‘Each man, put his sword on his side; pass through and return from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each man, his brother, and each man his companion, and each man his relative.’”

  • Exodus 35:17

    the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen of the gate of the courtyard;

  • Exodus 38:15

    And for the second side, on this side and on that side of the gate of the courtyard, hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three and their bases three.

  • Exodus 38:18

    And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

  • Exodus 38:31

    and the bases of the courtyard all around, and the bases of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs of the dwelling, and all the pegs of the courtyard all around.

  • Exodus 39:40

    the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its cords and its pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the dwelling, for the tent of meeting;

  • Exodus 40:8

    And you shall set up the courtyard all around, and you shall put the screen of the gate of the courtyard.

  • Exodus 40:33

    And he set up the courtyard all around the dwelling and the altar, and put the screen of the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

  • Numbers 4:26

    and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court which is around the dwelling and the altar, and their cords, and all the utensils for their service; and all that is to be done with them, they shall do.

  • Deuteronomy 5:14

    but the seventh day is a Sabbath to YHWH your Elohim. You shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male slave, or your female slave, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or your resident alien who is within your gates, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest like you.

  • Deuteronomy 6:9

    You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

  • Deuteronomy 11:20

    You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

  • Deuteronomy 12:12

    And you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim, you and your sons and your daughters, your male slaves and your female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

  • Deuteronomy 12:15

    However, with all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat meat according to the blessing of YHWH your Elohim that he has given you within all your gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

  • Deuteronomy 12:17

    You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows that you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand;

  • Deuteronomy 12:18

    but before YHWH your Elohim you shall eat it in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim in every undertaking of your hand.

  • Deuteronomy 12:21

    If the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to put his name there is far from you, then you may sacrifice from your herd and from your flock that YHWH has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates with all the desire of your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 14:21

    You shall not eat any carcass; to the resident alien who is within your gates you may give it, and he may eat it, or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

  • Deuteronomy 14:27

    And the Levite who is within your gates, you shall not abandon him, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

  • Deuteronomy 14:28

    At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year and lay it up within your gates.

  • Deuteronomy 14:29

    And the Levite shall come, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are within your gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.

  • Deuteronomy 15:7

    If there is among you a needy one, one of your brothers, in one of your gates in your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or close your hand against your brother, the needy one.

  • Deuteronomy 15:22

    Within your gates you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

  • Deuteronomy 16:5

    You may not sacrifice the Passover in any one of your gates that YHWH your Elohim is giving you,

  • Deuteronomy 16:11

    And you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.

  • Deuteronomy 16:14

    And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are within your gates.

  • Deuteronomy 16:18

    Judges and supervisors you shall appoint for yourself in all your gates that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

  • Deuteronomy 17:2

    If there is found among you, in one of your gates that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the eyes of YHWH your Elohim, transgressing his covenant,

  • Deuteronomy 17:5

    then you shall bring out that man or that woman who have done this evil thing to your gates, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die.

And 334 more times.