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Strong's H7778 שׁוֹעֵר (shoer)

Shoer means “doorkeeper” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H7778
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 37
Books 6

Strong's H7778 Quick Answer

Strong's H7778 שׁוֹעֵר שׁוֹעֵר (show`er) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. show`er (sho-are') (or shomer {sho-are'}) n-m. 1. a janitor [active participle of H8176 (as denominative from H8179)] It has 37 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include porters, porter, and doorkeepers. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
show`er (sho-are') (or shomer {sho-are'}) n-m. 1. a janitor [active participle of H8176 (as denominative from H8179)]
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
6 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
porters, porter, and doorkeepers

Meaning and Definition

show`er (sho-are') (or shomer {sho-are'}) n-m. 1. a janitor [active participle of H8176 (as denominative from H8179)] KJV: doorkeeper, porter. Root(s): H8176, H8179

Original Word
שׁוֹעֵר שׁוֹעֵר
Transliteration
show`er
Derivation
First root strongs: 8176 Second root strongs: 8179
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7778. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H7778 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render show`er, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

porters 2 Kings 7:11 31× porter 2 Samuel 18:26 doorkeepers 1 Chronicles 15:23

How Strong's H7778 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 37 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H7778 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H7778 in the Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Old Testament.

2 Samuel 18:26 KJV

And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.

2 Kings 7:10 KJV

So they came and called unto the porter 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 KJV

And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7778.

2 Samuel 18:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
2 Kings 7:10 Old Testament, KJV
So they came and called unto the porter 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 Old Testament, KJV
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
1 Chronicles 9:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
1 Chronicles 9:18 Old Testament, KJV
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
1 Chronicles 9:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Chronicles 9:22 Old Testament, KJV
All these which were chosen to be porters 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 Old Testament, KJV
In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
1 Chronicles 9:26 Old Testament, KJV
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 15:18 Old Testament, KJV
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 Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
1 Chronicles 15:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles 15:24 Old Testament, KJV
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 Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles 16:38 Old Testament, KJV
And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
1 Chronicles 23:5 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
1 Chronicles 26:1 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
1 Chronicles 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 26:19 Old Testament, KJV
These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
2 Chronicles 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
2 Chronicles 23:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 of the doors;
2 Chronicles 23:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
2 Chronicles 31:14 Old Testament, KJV
And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter 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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 35:15 Old Testament, KJV
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 waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
Ezra 2:42 Old Testament, KJV
The children of the porters: 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 Old Testament, KJV
So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
Ezra 7:7 Old Testament, KJV
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Ezra 10:24 Old Testament, KJV
Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Nehemiah 7:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah 7:45 Old Testament, KJV
The porters: 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 Old Testament, KJV
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, 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 Old Testament, KJV
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, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
Nehemiah 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
Nehemiah 12:25 Old Testament, KJV
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
Nehemiah 12:45 Old Testament, KJV
And both the singers and the porters 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 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, 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 Old Testament, KJV
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; and the offerings of the priests.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7778, grouped by book.

2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 14 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 4 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 10 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H7778 FAQ

What does shoer (שׁוֹעֵר) mean?

Shoer (Strong's H7778) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "doorkeeper". show`er (sho-are') (or shomer {sho-are'}) n-m. 1. a janitor [active participle of H8176 (as denominative from H8179)]

How many times is shoer (שׁוֹעֵר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's H7778 across 6 books.

Where can I study shoer (שׁוֹעֵר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7778 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shoer (שׁוֹעֵר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as porters, porter, and doorkeepers. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.