Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8179: שַׁעַר (shaʻar) Definition

Strong's number
H8179
Lemma
שַׁעַר
Transliteration
shaʻar
Pronunciation
shah'-ar
Strong's definition
an opening, i.e. door or gate city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er). from H8176 (שָׁעַר) in its original sense;

302 instances of the word שַׁעַר shaʻar (H8179)


  • Joshua 20:4 - And when he that doth flee unto one him into the city shall stand at the entering of the gate him into the city and shall declare in the ears of the elders him into the city his cause they shall take him into the city unto them and give him a place that he may dwell

  • Judges 5:8 - They chose gods new then was war in the gates was there a shield seen or spear among forty thousand in Israel

  • Judges 5:11 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water there shall they rehearse even the righteous acts of the LORD even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel go down to the gates then shall the people of the LORD

  • Judges 9:35 - went out And Gaal the son of Ebed and stood in the entering of the gate of the city rose up and Abimelech and the people that were with him from lying in wait

  • Judges 9:40 - chased And Abimelech him and he fled before were overthrown and wounded him and many even unto the entering of the gate

  • Judges 9:44 - And Abimelech and the company ran upon and stood in the entering of the gate of the city and the two and the company ran upon all the people that were in the fields and slew

  • Judges 16:2 - And it was told the Gazites saying is come Samson hither And they compassed him in and laid wait all the night in the gate of the city and were quiet all the night saying when it is day In the morning we shall kill

  • Judges 16:3 - lay And Samson at midnight and arose at midnight and took the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts and went away with them bar and all and put them upon his shoulders and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron

  • Judges 18:16 - And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war stood by the entering of the gate which were of the children of Dan

  • Judges 18:17 - went up And the five men that went to spy out the land and came in thither and took the graven image and the ephod and the teraphim and the molten image and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war

  • Lamentations 1:4 - The ways of Zion do mourn because none come to the solemn feasts all her gates are desolate her priests sigh her virgins are afflicted and she is in bitterness

  • Lamentations 2:9 - are sunk into the ground Her gates he hath destroyed and broken her bars her king and her princes are among the Gentiles the law is no more her prophets also find no vision from the LORD

  • Lamentations 4:12 - would not have believed The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world should have entered that the adversary and the enemy into the gates of Jerusalem

  • Lamentations 5:14 - The elders from the gate have ceased the young men from their musick

  • Micah 1:9 - is incurable For her wound for it is come unto Judah he is come unto the gate of my people even to Jerusalem

  • Micah 1:12 - for good For the inhabitant of Maroth came down but evil from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem

  • Micah 2:13 - is come up The breaker before The breaker and have passed through the gate and are gone out and have passed through by it and their king before them and the LORD on the head

  • Nahum 2:6 - The gates of the rivers shall be opened and the palace shall be dissolved

  • Nahum 3:13 - Behold thy people of thee are women in the midst unto thine enemies open open the gates of thy land shall devour the fire thy bars

  • Nehemiah 1:3 - And they said that are left that are left of the captivity there in the province affliction are in great and reproach the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down and the gates thereof are burned with fire