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Strong's #8179 - שַׁעַר
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- gate
- gate (of entrance)
- gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place)
- city, town
- gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle)
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2862) ros (סהאהר ShAhR) AC: ? CO: Gate AB: ?: The entrance into the city as well the activities carried out there such as marketing and judging.
V) ros (סהאהר ShAhR) - Reason: To think in the sense of splitting open and entering as a gate. KJV (1): (vf: Paal) think - Strongs: H8176 (שָׁעַר)
Nm) ros (סהאהר ShAhR) - I. Gate:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Sh KJV (375): gate, city, door, port, porter, mouth - Strongs: H8179 (שַׁעַר), H8180 (שַׁעַר), H8651 (תְּרַע), H8652 (תָּרָע)
gm ) rofs (סהואהר ShWAhR) - Gatekeeper: KJV (37): porter, doorkeeper - Strongs: H7778 (שֹׁעֵר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1. a. gate, entrance to city, shut (סָגַר) by night Joshua 2:5,7 (JE), compare Isaiah 45:1, opened (מָּתַח) by day Nehemiah 7:3, compare Isaiah 60:11; for entrance (בּוֺא), and exit (יָצָא) Jeremiah 17:19,20,21,24,25,27; Lamentations 4:12; Ezekiel 26:10 +; ׳עָבַר שׁ Micah 2:13 pass out through (disregard accents), ׳בַּשׁ׳ע Isaiah 62:10; with bars Psalm 147:13; attacked Ezekiel 21:20; Ezekiel 21:27, compare Isaiah 28:6; Micah 1:9,12; 1 Samuel 17:52; on Judges 5:8,11see Commentaries; burned (by foe) Jeremiah 19:27; Jeremiah 51:58; Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 2:3,13,17; as giving control, possession, of city, אֹיְבָיו׳יָרַשׁ אֵת שׁ Genesis 22:17; Genesis 24:60 (J); ׳מֶּתַח הַשּׁ Judges 9:40 + (see ׳פ), ׳דַּלְתוֺת הַשּׁ 1 Samuel 21:14 + (see ׳ד
3); ׳מֶּתַחהַֿשּׁ Judges 18:16,17 of farm or village; so of camp Exodus 32:26,27 (J). In cities, elaborate structure, with roof 2 Samuel 18:24, upper chamber 2 Samuel 19:1; compare שְׂאוּ שְׁעָרִים רָאשֵׁיכֶם Psalm 24:7; Psalm 24:9; write laws ׳בִּשׁ Deuteronomy 6:9 ( + עַלמְֿזֻזוֺת בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ), Deuteronomy 11:20 (+ id..); ׳בְּתוֺךְ הַשּׁ 1 Samuel 9:18, ׳אֶלאתּוֺךְ הַשּׁ 2 Samuel 3:27; ׳(לְ)יַד שׁ as public, 1 Samuel 4:18, + 1 Samuel 4:13 ᵐ5 Th We Dr and others, compare 2 Samuel 15:2; 2 Samuel 18:4; Proverbs 8:3 ("" מְבוֺא פְתָחִים).
b. particular gates of Jerusalem are:-1אֶפְרַיִם׳שׁ 3 b); (16) הַמִּנָּה׳שׁ 2 Kings 14:13 "" 2 Chronicles 25:23 (read הַמִּנָּה for הַמּוֺנֶה), Jeremiah 31:38; 2 Chronicles 26:9; probably = הַמִּנִּים׳שׁ Zechariah 14:10; -17הַצּאֹן׳שׁ Nehemiah 3:1,32; Nehemiah 12:39; -18הָרִאשׁוֺן׳שׁ Zechariah 14:10; — on sites and related to each other see RS-GASm Ency. Bib. JERUSALEM Conder Hast. DB id. Buhl G 133ff. Bd Pal. under the word Murray Hd. Bk, under the word BeRy Ne p. 182ff. Gu ZPV, especially v (1882). 7 ff. viii (1885), 245 ff. Comm. on the passage variant reading c. of Ezekiel's holy city, שַׁעֲרֵי הָעִיר Ezekiel 48:31, three on each side, named for tribes, Ezekiel 48:31; Ezekiel 48:31; Ezekiel 48:31; Ezekiel 48:31 12t. Ezekiel 48.. 2. a. gate = space inside gate, as public meeting-place, market 2 Kings 7:1,18, place of public well 2 Samuel 23:15,16 = 1 Chronicles 11:17,18, where elders, Judges , king, sat officially Deuteronomy 21:19; Deuteronomy 22:15; Amos 5:12,15; Isaiah 29:21; 2 Samuel 18:24; 2 Samuel 19:9; 1 Kings 22:10 2 Chronicles 18:9; Genesis 19:1 (J) Proverbs 24:7; Job 5:4; Job 31:21; Ruth 4:1 (twice in verse); Proverbs 31:23,31, etc.; of conqueror Jeremiah 1:15; apparently = ׳רְחוֺב שׁ Genesis 19:2 (J) Nehemiah 8:16; 1 Chronicles 9:16 + (see I. ׳ר); Genesis 34:20 (P) one came unto gate (בָּא אֶלֿ), so ׳בָּאֵי שׁ Genesis 23:10,18 (P) those entering the gate, i.e. having citizens' rights; also went out (to), ׳יָצָא שׁ Job 29:7 (i.e., in this case, from his own house, outside the city), hence ׳כָּליֹֿצְאֵי שׁ Genesis 34:24 (twice in verse) (P; compare also הוֺצִיא אֶלֿ Deuteronomy 21:19; Deuteronomy 22:15,24); hence = body of citizens, עַמִּי׳כָּלשֿׁ Ruth 3:11. b. hence also = city Isaiah 14:31 ("" עִיר), Psalm 87:2, etc. c. specifically in Deuteronomy , בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ in thy gates, i.e. thy cities, towns, etc., Deuteronomy 5:14 = Exodus 20:10; Deuteronomy 12:12,15,17,21 22t. Deuteronomy + 1 Kings 8:37 (read ׳בְּאַחַד שׁ, compare Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 23:17, so ᵐ5ᵑ6 modern), so "" 2 Chronicles 6:28, + (perhaps) Jeremiah 14:2 (but Jeremiah 15:7; Nahum 3:13 figurative of gates as entrance to land); of private house, שַׁעֲרֵי צַדִּיק Proverbs 14:19 (perhaps compare Judges 18:16 1 a above). 3. a. gate of royal castle or palace 2 Kings 9:31; Jeremiah 22:2,4; Nehemiah 2:8; Esther 2:19 10t. Esther; specifically (of king of Judah), סוּר׳שׁ 2 Kings 11:6 = הַיְסוֺד׳שׁ 2 Chronicles 23:5 (see ׳ס, ׳יס), הָרָצִים׳שׁ 2 Kings 11:19, ׳אַחַר הָר׳הַשּׁ 2 Kings 11:6; ׳הַסּוּסִים בֵּית הַמּ׳שׁ 2 Chronicles 23:15 ( = ׳מְבוֺא הַסּ "" 2 Kings 11:16); apparently of official residence, יְהוֺשֻׁעַ׳מֶּתַח שׁ 2 Kings 23:8. b. of temple Jeremiah 7:2 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 9:23; 1 Chronicles 16:42 12t. Chronicles, including ׳שַׁעֲרֵי מַחֲנוֺת י 2 Chronicles 31:2 (see מַחֲנֶה 1, p. 334), compare Psalm 100:4; Psalm 118:20, שַׁעֲרֵי צֶדֶק Psalm 100:19; specifically בִּנְיָמִין הָעֶלְיוֺן׳שׁ Jeremiah 20:2, and (omit ׳בִּנְי) 2 Kings 15:35 2 Chronicles 27:3; Ezekiel 9:2; 2 Chronicles 23:20, הֶחָדָשׁ׳(בֵּית) י ׳שׁ Jeremiah 26:10; Jeremiah 36:10, הַמְּנִימִית הַמּוֺנֶה׳שׁ צָפוֺנָה Ezekiel 8:3 compare Ezekiel 8:14, Ezekiel 8:5, הַקַּדְמֹנִי׳הַמִּזְבֵּחַ שַׁעַר בֵּית י ׳שׁ Ezekiel 10:19; Ezekiel 11:1; שַׁלֶּכֶת׳שׁ 1 Chronicles 26:16; שַׁעַר הַמֶּלֶח 1 Chronicles 9:18. c. of Ezekiel's temple and courts Ezekiel 40:3,6; Ezekiel 44:11,17 67t. Ezekiel 40-47. d. of court of tabernacle (P), הֶחָצֵר׳שׁ Exodus 27:16; Exodus 35:17 + 6t. Exodus + Numbers 4:36. 4 figurative הַשָּׁמַיִם׳זֶה שׁ Genesis 28:17 (E; "" בֵּית אֱלֹהִים); plural שַׁעֲרֵי שְׁאוֺל Isaiah 38:10; מָֿוֶת׳שׁ Job 38:17; Psalm 9:14; Psalm 107:18; צַלְמָוֶת׳שׁ Job 38:17. תְּרַע noun [masculine] gate, door (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew שַׁ֫עַר, √I. שׁער); — construct ׳ת: 1 door of furnace Daniel 3:26. 2 gate of king, i.e. palace, court, Daniel 2:29 (compare Esther 2:19, see שַׁ֫עַר 3 a; also Arabic gate, then the court of a sovereign; plural Sublime Porte, of Turkish court, see especially Dozy i. 124).
שַׁעַר comm. (fem. Isaiah 14:31 compare Nehemiah 3:16).
(1) a gate. (Syr. and Chald. with the letters transposed תְּרַע, ܬܰܪܥܐܳ), whether of a camp, Exodus 32:26, 27 Exodus 32:27 or of a city, Genesis 23:18; Joshua 2:7 or of a temple, Ezekiel 8:5, 10:19 or of a palace, Esther 2:19, 21 (whence שַׁעַר used of the palace itself, Esther 4:2, compare תְּרַע). שַׁעֲרֵי הָאָרֶץ the gates of a land are the entrances of a land, places where enemies might enter, Jeremiah 15:7; Nahum 3:13 בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ within thy gates, i.e. in thy cities, Deuteronomy 12:12, 14:27 and even בְּאַחַד שְׁעָרֶיךָ in one of thy cities, Deuteronomy 17:2 compare 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28. At the gates of cities there was the forum (רְחֹב, compare amongst other passages, Nehemiah 8:16), where trials were held, and the citizens assembled, some of them for business, and some to sit at leisure, to look on, and converse (Genesis 19:1; Ruth 4:11; Proverbs 31:23; Lamentations 1:4); whence בַּשַּׁעַר in the gate, often for in the forum, in judgment, Deuteronomy 25:7; Job 5:4, 31:21 Proverbs 22:22; Isaiah 29:21; Amos 5:10, 12, 15 ישְׁבֵי שַׁעַר those who sit in the gate, i.e. persons of leisure, idlers, Psalms 69:13; Ruth 3:11 כָּל־שַׁעַר עַמִּי “all the assembly of my people.”
The following were the names of the gates in the walls of Jerusalem
(a) שַׁעַר הָעַיִן the gate of the fountain, so called from the fountain Gihon, on the west side of the city, near the foot of Mount Zion, Nehemiah 2:14, 3:15 12:37. Going from this towards the north
(b) שַׁעַר הָאַשְׁפֹּת the dunghill-gate, Nehemiah 2:13, 3:14 12:31 contr. שׁ׳ הָשְׁפּוֹת Nehemiah 3:13 Josephus calls it (Bell. Jud. v. 4, § 2), the gate of the Essenes.
(c) שַׁעַר הַגַּיְא the gate of the valley, Nehemiah 2:13, 15 3:13 2 Chronicles 33:14. On the north side of the city there followed
(d) שַׁעַר הַפִּנָּה Jerem. 31:38 2 Chronicles 26:9 and שַׁעַר הַפִּנִּים the gate of the mural towers, Zechariah 14:10.
(e) שׁ׳ אֶפְרַיִם Nehemiah 8:16 also called שׁ׳ בִּנְיָמִין Jeremiah 37:13, 38:7 Zechariah 14:10 (the way from it leading to both these tribes), with a forum near it (Nehemiah 8:16).-Next this on the eastern side of the city was
(f) שׁ׳ הַיְשָׁנָה the old gate, Nehemiah 3:6, 12:39 prob. the same as is called שַׁעַר הָרִאשׁוֹן Zechariah 14:10. Then
(g) שׁ׳ הַדָּגִים the fish-gate, prob. so called from the fish which were there offered for sale, Nehemiah 3:3, 12:39 Zephaniah 1:10.
(h) שׁ׳ הַצֹּאן the sheep-gate, Nehemiah 3:1, 12:39, near the temple, so called from the sheep for sacrifice in the temple, which were offered for sale in the forum of this gate.
(1) שׁ׳ הַמִּפְקָד Vulg. porta judicialis, Nehemiah 3:31 (which others take to be one of the gates of the temple).
(k) the horse-gate, Nehemiah 3:28; Jeremiah 31:40.
(l) the water-gate, so called from the brook Kedron, Nehemiah 3:26, 12:37 which some suppose to be the same as
(m) שַׁעַר הַחַרְסוּת the pottery-gate, Jeremiah 19:2, through which they went to the valley of Hinnom, which is no doubt to be sought on the south-east side of the city. On the south side of the city, the walls were built on the edge of the steep side of Mount Zion, in which therefore there were no gates. The inner-gate (שׁ׳ הַתָּוֶךְ), Jeremiah 39:3, seems to have led from the higher city to the lower. See concerning the whole subject, Bachiene, Descr. Palæstinæ, ii. § 94-107; J. E. Faber, Archäologie der Hebräer, i. p. 336, seqq.; Rosenm. Alterthumskunde, it. 2, p. 216, seqq. Certain other gates were not in the walls of the city, but in the outer wall of the temple; see סוּר, שַׁלֶּכֶת.
(2) a measure, -fold, see the root No. I., 2, Genesis 26:12, מֵאָה שְׁעָרִים a hundred measures, a hundred-fold, i.e. ἑκατονπλασίως.