Occurrences
Shôwʻêr occurs 37 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (14), 2 Chronicles (6), Ezra (4), Nehemiah (10)
- 2 Samuel 18:26 — And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter (הַשֹּׁעֵ֔ר), and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
- 2 Kings 7:10 — So they came and called unto the porter (שֹׁעֵ֣ר) of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
- 2 Kings 7:11 — And he called the porters (הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֑ים); and they told it to the king’s house within.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17 — And the porters (וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִים֙) were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
- 1 Chronicles 9:18 — Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters (הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔ים) in the companies of the children of Levi.
- 1 Chronicles 9:21 — And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter (שֹׁעֵ֥ר) of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22 — All these which were chosen to be porters (לְשֹׁעֲרִ֣ים) in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
- 1 Chronicles 9:24 — In four quarters were the porters (הַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים), toward the east, west, north, and south.
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 — For these Levites, the four chief porters (הַשֹּׁעֲרִ֔ים), were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 — And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters (הַשֹּׁעֲרִֽים).
- 1 Chronicles 15:23 — And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers (שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים) for the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 15:24 — And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers (שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים) for the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 16:38 — And Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters (לְשֹׁעֲרִֽים):
- 1 Chronicles 23:5 — Moreover four thousand were porters (שֹׁעֲרִ֑ים); and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
- 1 Chronicles 26:1 — Concerning the divisions of the porters (לְשֹׁעֲרִ֑ים): Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
- 1 Chronicles 26:12 — Among these were the divisions of the porters (הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֜ים), even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 26:19 — These are the divisions of the porters (הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔ים) among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 — And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters (וְהַשּׁוֹעֲרִ֥ים) also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- 2 Chronicles 23:4 — This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters (לְשֹֽׁעֲרֵ֖י) of the doors;
- 2 Chronicles 23:19 — And he set the porters (הַשּׁ֣וֹעֲרִ֔ים) at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
- 2 Chronicles 31:14 — And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter (הַשּׁוֹעֵ֣ר) toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
- 2 Chronicles 34:13 — Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters (וְשׁוֹעֲרִֽים).
- 2 Chronicles 35:15 — And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters (וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֖ים) waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
- Ezra 2:42 — The children of the porters (הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֗ים): the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
- Ezra 2:70 — So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters (וְהַשּׁוֹעֲרִ֛ים), and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
- Ezra 7:7 — And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters (וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֛ים), and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
- Ezra 10:24 — Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters (הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔ים); Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
- Nehemiah 7:1 — Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters (הַשּׁוֹעֲרִ֥ים) and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
- Nehemiah 7:45 — The porters (הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֗ים): the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
- Nehemiah 7:73 — So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters (וְהַשּׁוֹעֲרִים֩), and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
- Nehemiah 10:28 — And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters (הַשּׁוֹעֲרִ֨ים), the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
- Nehemiah 10:39 — For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters (וְהַשּׁוֹעֲרִ֖ים), and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 11:19 — Moreover the porters (וְהַשּֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙), Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
- Nehemiah 12:25 — Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters (שֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙) keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
- Nehemiah 12:45 — And both the singers and the porters (וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים) kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
- Nehemiah 12:47 — And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters (וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֖ים), every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
- Nehemiah 13:5 — And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters (וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים); and the offerings of the priests.