# H8179 שַׁעַר

שַׁעַר (shaʻar), Strong’s H8179: an opening, i.e. door or gate KJV: city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er).. Occurs 374 times.

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*shaʻar* — an opening, i.e. door or gate

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

Derived from [שָׁעַר shâʻar](https://besorah.bible/word/H8176) (to act as gatekeeper)

Occurs 374 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שַׁ֫עַר 373 n.m. gate

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 19:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=1) — 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…
- [Genesis 22:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=17) — that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the…
- [Genesis 23:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=10) — Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the…
- [Genesis 23:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=18) — to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
- [Genesis 24:60](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=60) — They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your…
- [Genesis 28:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=17) — He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of…
- [Genesis 34:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=20) — Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
- [Genesis 34:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=24) — All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all…
- [Exodus 20:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=10) — 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…
- [Exodus 27:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=16) — For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen…