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Ezekiel 40:27
“And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שַׁעַרshaʻar · shah'-ar
H8179 · Hebrew
H8179 · Hebrew
- Definition
- an opening, i.e. door or gate
- Derivation
- from H8176 (שָׁעַר) in its original sense;
- KJV renderings
- city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- שַׁ֛עַר — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 375 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 19:1Genesis 22:17Genesis 23:10Genesis 23:18Genesis 24:60
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שַׁעַר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.