שַׁעַר
shaʻar · shah'-ar
an opening, i.e. door or gate
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8176 (שָׁעַר) in its original sense;
an opening, i.e. door or gate
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to see and know › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy that works to see and know of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׁעַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
374 occurrences · 374 OT · 0 NT · 143 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- gate88 · 31%
- of the gate52 · 19%
- in the gate21 · 8%
- the gate14 · 5%
- at the gate9 · 3%
- and the gates8 · 3%
- of the gates8 · 3%
- the gates8 · 3%
- in the gates7 · 3%
- that is within thy gates6 · 2%
- gates6 · 2%
- of thy gates6 · 2%
- within thy gates6 · 2%
- by the gate5 · 2%
- to the gate5 · 2%
- unto the gate4 · 1%
- at the gates4 · 1%
- thee in all thy gates4 · 1%
- from gate3 · 1%
- of that gate3 · 1%
- and the gate3 · 1%
- from the gate3 · 1%
- to gate3 · 1%
- over the gate2 · 1%
- to the gates2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.