{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H8179",
  "lemma": "שַׁעַר",
  "transliteration": "shaʻar",
  "definition": "an opening, i.e. door or gate",
  "kjv": "city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er).",
  "occurrences": 374,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H8176",
      "lemma": "שָׁעַר",
      "transliteration": "shâʻar",
      "meaning": "to act as gatekeeper",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H8176"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שַׁ֫עַר 373 n.m. gate"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:1",
      "text": "The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 22:17",
      "text": "that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 23:10",
      "text": "Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 23:18",
      "text": "to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:60",
      "text": "They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=60"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 28:17",
      "text": "He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 34:20",
      "text": "Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 34:24",
      "text": "All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 20:10",
      "text": "but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 27:16",
      "text": "For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=16"
    }
  ],
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
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  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}