Strong's Concordance H8179

Original Word: שַׁעַר
Transliteration: shaʻar
Phonetic Spelling: shah'-ar
from H8176 in its original sense; an opening, i.e. door or gate; city, door, gate, port (× -er).

Usages throughout the bible

Deuteronomy 28:55 - So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. H8179

Deuteronomy 28:57 - And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. H8179

Deuteronomy 31:12 - Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, H8179 that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Joshua 2:5 - And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, H8179 when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

Joshua 2:7 - And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate. H8179

Joshua 7:5 - And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate H8179 even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

Joshua 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate H8179 of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

Joshua 20:4 - And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate H8179 of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Judges 5:8 - They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: H8179 was there a shield or spear seen 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 the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. H8179

Judges 9:35 - And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate H8179 of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

Judges 9:40 - And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate. H8179

Judges 9:44 - And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate H8179 of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.

Judges 16:2 - And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate H8179 of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

Judges 16:3 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate H8179 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, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. H8179

Judges 18:17 - And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, 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 H8179 with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Ruth 3:11 - And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city H8179 of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

Ruth 4:1 - Then went Boaz up to the gate, H8179 and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

Ruth 4:10 - Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate H8179 of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

Ruth 4:11 - And all the people that were in the gate, H8179 and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

1 Samuel 4:18 - And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, H8179 and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

1 Samuel 9:18 - Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, H8179 and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.

1 Samuel 17:52 - And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates H8179 of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

1 Samuel 21:13 - And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, H8179 and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

2 Samuel 3:27 - And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate H8179 to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 10:8 - And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: H8179 and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

2 Samuel 11:23 - And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. H8179

2 Samuel 15:2 - And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: H8179 and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

2 Samuel 18:4 - And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate H8179 side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 18:24 - And David sat between the two gates: H8179 and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate H8179 unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

2 Samuel 18:33 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, H8179 and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

2 Samuel 19:8 - Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. H8179 And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. H8179 And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

2 Samuel 23:15 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! H8179

2 Samuel 23:16 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, H8179 and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.

1 Kings 8:37 - If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; H8179 whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

2 Kings 7:1 - Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate H8179 of Samaria.

2 Kings 7:3 - And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: H8179 and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

2 Kings 7:17 - And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: H8179 and the people trode upon him in the gate, H8179 and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

2 Kings 7:18 - And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate H8179 of Samaria:

2 Kings 7:20 - And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, H8179 and he died.

2 Kings 9:31 - And as Jehu entered in at the gate, H8179 she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?

2 Kings 10:8 - And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate H8179 until the morning.

2 Kings 11:6 - And a third part shall be at the gate H8179 of Sur; and a third part at the gate H8179 behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.

2 Kings 11:19 - And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate H8179 of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kings 14:13 - And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate H8179 of Ephraim unto the corner gate, H8179 four hundred cubits.

2 Kings 15:35 - Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate H8179 of the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 23:8 - And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates H8179 that were in the entering in of the gate H8179 of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate H8179 of the city.

2 Kings 25:4 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate H8179 between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

1 Chronicles 9:18 - Who hitherto waited in the king's gate H8179 eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.