שַׁ֫עַר (sha.ar) means “gate” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shah'-ar Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
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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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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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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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| 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 |
| 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 |
Page 5 of 7. 302 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
Read word by wordFor I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
Read word by word“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
Read word by word“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Read word by wordI will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordSay to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
Read word by wordIf, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,
Read word by wordthen kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
Read word by wordBut if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
Read word by wordand go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
Read word by wordhe had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordsaying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
Read word by wordFor if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
Read word by wordHe will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordWhen the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.
Read word by word“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
Read word by wordThe whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
Read word by wordFrom the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.
Read word by wordBut when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
Read word by wordNow Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
Read word by wordThen all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.
Read word by wordWhen Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
Read word by wordThen the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
Read word by wordThe roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
Read word by wordHer gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Read word by wordThe kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordThe elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Read word by wordHe stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
Read word by word“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
Read word by wordThen He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.
Read word by wordAnd I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Read word by wordAs I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
Read word by wordThen the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.
Read word by wordSo that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.20
In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.27
His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
Read word by wordSo He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
Read word by wordThen he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.
Read word by wordEach gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.
Read word by wordThen he measured the portico of the gateway inside;
Read word by wordit was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.
Read word by wordThere were three gate chambers on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the gateposts on either side also had the same measurements.
Read word by wordAnd he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.
Read word by wordThen he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.
Read word by wordNext he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
Read word by wordAnd the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.
Read word by wordThe gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.
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