sha.ar H8179

שַׁ֫עַר (sha.ar) means “gate” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

שַׁ֫עַר Hebrew · H8179 374 tagged occurrences in 302 verses

Pronunciation guide: shah'-ar Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H8179G

שַׁ֫עַר · sha.ar · gate

: gate 1) gate 1a) gate (of entrance) 1b) gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) 1b1) city, town 1c) gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle) 1d) heaven

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TBESH · H8179H

שַׁ֫עַר · sha.ar · gate: town

: town 1) gate 1a) gate (of entrance) 1b) gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) 1b1) city, town 1c) gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle) 1d) heaven

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H8176 (שָׁעַר) in its original sense; an opening, i.e. door or gate

KJV glosses: city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er).

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How translators render H8179

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
gate	92
the gate	32
the gates	25
at the gate	17
of the gate	16
within your gates	14
gates	12
of the gateway	11
at the gates	7
in the gate	7
through the gates	6
your gates	6
and the gate	5
gateway	5
of the gates	5
the gateway	5
in the gateway	4
and its gates	3
for the entrance	3
near the gate	3
to the gate	3
and on your gates	2
at each gate	2
for the gate	2
her gates	2
in your gates	2
is the gate	2
its gate	2
o gates	2
of the city gate	2
of the towns	2
of your gates	2
the city gate	2
their cities	2
town	2
a gateway	1
also had a gate	1
among you	1
and her gates	1
and the gates	1
and your gates	1
as those of the gate	1
at the city gate	1
at the city gates	1
at the entrance	1
began to fall on the gates	1
but the gate	1
by the gate	1
came to their gates	1
even to the gate	1
for each gate	1
from gate	1
from gateway	1
from the gates	1
gate however	1
have the gates	1
his gate	1
his gates	1
in court	1
in each of the inner gateways	1
in its gates	1
in one of your towns	1
in the gates	1
in the meeting place	1
it within your gates	1
its	1
leading to the city gate	1
o gate	1
of the gate to be	1
of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were	1
of the gateways	1
or from the gate	1
so that the gates	1
that within the gates	1
the cities	1
the distance from gateway	1
the gateway extended	1
the gateways	1
the south gate	1
the town	1
their gates	1
there was a gate	1
through the gate	1
to gate	1
to the gates	1
vvv	1
were stationed at the gate	1
when the gate	1
your cities	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
gate	91
of the gate	52
in the gate	22
the gate	16
within thy gates	14
at the gate	11
and the gates	8
by the gate	8
of the gates	8
the gates	8
in the gates	7
gates	6
of thy gates	6
to the gate	5
at the gates	4
thee in all thy gates	4
unto the gate	4
and the gate	3
from gate	3
from the gate	3
to gate	3
and thy gates	2
at every gate	2
but the gate	2
in thy gates	2
into his gates	2
into the gates	2
o ye gates	2
over against the gate	2
over the gate	2
to the gates	2
upon him in the gate	2
a gate	1
against all their gates	1
against the gates	1
all her gates	1
and behold a gate	1
and for the gate	1
and from above the gate	1
and from the gate	1
and in all the gates	1
and it came to pass that when the gates	1
and on thy gates	1
and to the gates	1
and unto the gate	1
and upon thy gates	1
and when he was in the gate	1
at these gates	1
by the gates	1
by these gates	1
for all the city	1
for every gate	1
for the door	1
for the gate	1
for the gates	1
from the gates	1
have the gates	1
he unto the gate	1
her gates	1
her in the gates	1
him the gate	1
i at the gates	1
in all thy gates	1
in at the gates	1
in by the gates	1
in by these gates	1
in your gates	1
into the gate	1
into thy gates	1
it within thy gates	1
me to the gate	1
o gate	1
of their cities	1
of this gate	1
out unto the gate	1
port	1
porters	1
the doors	1
the oversight of the gates	1
thee in thy gates	1
them in the cities	1
then the gate	1
therefore thy gates	1
this gate	1
through the gates	1
to have the charge of the gate	1
to me the gates	1
unto me this gate	1
unto the gates	1
unto them let not the gates	1
unto thy gates	1
upon the gates	1
with the gate	1
within your gates	1
ye the gates	1

Verses containing H8179

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Genesis 19:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
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Genesis 22:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
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Genesis 23:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
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Genesis 23:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
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Genesis 24:60 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
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Genesis 28:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
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Genesis 34:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
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Genesis 34:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
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Exodus 20:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
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Exodus 27:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.
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Exodus 32:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.
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Exodus 32:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”
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Exodus 35:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard;
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Exodus 38:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.
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Exodus 38:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,
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Exodus 38:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the bases for the surrounding courtyard and its gate, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and its surrounding courtyard.
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Exodus 39:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases; the curtain for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;
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Exodus 40:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.
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Exodus 40:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
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Numbers 4:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the curtains of the courtyard, and the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that needs to be done with these items.
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Deuteronomy 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
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Deuteronomy 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
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Deuteronomy 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,
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Deuteronomy 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
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Deuteronomy 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
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Deuteronomy 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
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Deuteronomy 12:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
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Deuteronomy 12:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
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Deuteronomy 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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Deuteronomy 14:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
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Deuteronomy 14:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.
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Deuteronomy 14:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
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Deuteronomy 15:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
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Deuteronomy 15:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
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Deuteronomy 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 16:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
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Deuteronomy 16:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
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Deuteronomy 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
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Deuteronomy 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
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Deuteronomy 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
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Deuteronomy 17:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
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Deuteronomy 18:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
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Deuteronomy 21:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
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Deuteronomy 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
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Deuteronomy 22:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
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Deuteronomy 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
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Source alternate reference: 23.17
Deuteronomy 24:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
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Deuteronomy 25:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
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Deuteronomy 26:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
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Deuteronomy 28:52 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
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