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Word Study · Strong's H8179 · Hebrew

שַׁעַר

shaar

shah'-ar

Strong's 1890 spelling: shaʻar

an opening, i.e. door or gate

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

an opening, i.e. door or gate

Rendered in the KJV as

city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er).

  • 374
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 29 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 143
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 374 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 143

  • שַׁ֣עַר42
  • שַׁ֥עַר23
  • הַשַּׁ֔עַר14
  • שַׁ֤עַר14
  • בְּשַׁ֣עַר11
  • שַֽׁעַר־9
  • בְּשַׁ֥עַר8
  • הַשַּׁ֖עַר8
  • שַׁ֨עַר8
  • הַשַּׁ֙עַר֙7
  • הַשָּׁ֑עַר7
  • הַשַּׁ֣עַר6

and 131 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 66

  • [the] gate of90
  • the gate59
  • [the] gates of16
  • [the] gate15
  • in the gate14
  • gates your13
  • at [the] gate of12
  • in gates your11
  • the gates11
  • in [the] gate of10
  • in [the] gates of10
  • [is] in gates your8

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 33

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)96
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular57
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)39
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular24
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular17
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)16
  • noun · masculine singular16
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)13
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular11
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural11
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular9
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural9
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 96
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 57
  • HR/Ncmsc · 39
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 24
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp2ms · 17
  • HNcmpc · 16
  • HNcmsa · 16
  • HR/Ncmpc · 13
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 11
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 11
  • HR/Ncmsa · 9
  • HRd/Ncmpa · 9

All 374, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis9 occurrences
Exodus12 occurrences
Numbers1 occurrence
Deuteronomy34 occurrences
Joshua5 occurrences
Judges9 occurrences
Ruth4 occurrences
1 Samuel4 occurrences
2 Samuel12 occurrences
1 Kings2 occurrences
2 Kings18 occurrences
1 Chronicles9 occurrences
2 Chronicles19 occurrences
Nehemiah41 occurrences
Esther11 occurrences
Job5 occurrences
Psalms13 occurrences
Proverbs7 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah12 occurrences
Jeremiah28 occurrences
Lamentations4 occurrences
Ezekiel99 occurrences
Amos3 occurrences
Obadiah2 occurrences
Micah3 occurrences
Nahum2 occurrences
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah4 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled שַׁעַר

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).