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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Deuteronomy 28:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
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Deuteronomy 28:57 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
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Deuteronomy 31:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
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Joshua 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”
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Joshua 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king’s men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.
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Joshua 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
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Joshua 8:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
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Joshua 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
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Judges 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
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Judges 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the voices of the singers at the watering places. There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous deeds of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates:
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Judges 9:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelech and his men came out from their hiding places.
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Judges 9:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but Abimelech pursued him, and Gaal fled before him. And many Shechemites fell wounded all the way to the entrance of the gate.
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Judges 9:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward and took their stand at the entrance of the city gate. The other two companies rushed against all who were in the fields and struck them down.
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Judges 16:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
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Judges 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
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Judges 18:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
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Judges 18:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
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Ruth 3:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.
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Ruth 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
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Ruth 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
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Ruth 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
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1 Samuel 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
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1 Samuel 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul approached Samuel in the gateway and asked, “Would you please tell me where the seer’s house is?”
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1 Samuel 17:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. And the bodies of the Philistines were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
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1 Samuel 21:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
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Source alternate reference: 21.14
2 Samuel 3:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
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2 Samuel 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
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2 Samuel 11:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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2 Samuel 15:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”
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2 Samuel 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
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2 Samuel 18:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
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2 Samuel 18:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
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Source alternate reference: 19.1
2 Samuel 19:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.
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Source alternate reference: 19.9
2 Samuel 23:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
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2 Samuel 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,
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1 Kings 8:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
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1 Kings 22:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Dressed in royal attire, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
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2 Kings 7:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
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2 Kings 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
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2 Kings 7:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.
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2 Kings 7:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
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2 Kings 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
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2 Kings 9:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, O Zimri, murderer of your master?”
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2 Kings 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
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2 Kings 11:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
a third shall be at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns guarding the temple—
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2 Kings 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,
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2 Kings 14:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
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2 Kings 15:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
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2 Kings 23:8 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
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2 Kings 25:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
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