Doorkeeper
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A place of dignity in the East; therefore translate as margin Psa_84:10, "I had rather lie at the threshold (as the lame man at the temple gate, Act_3:2; or as the poor in the synagogue, Jas_2:3) in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness;" for that is an abiding house, however low my position in it; these are but shifting tents, though one have a dwelling in them.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
dōr?kēp-ẽr (שׁוער, shō‛ēr): The gates of an oriental city and of the temple courts so closely resembled the door of a house that the same Hebrew word was used for doorkeeper and gatekeeper. It is often translated by the less definite word ?porter? (which see).
In the pre?xilic writings (2Sa_18:26; 2Ki_7:10, 2Ki_7:11) reference is made to porters at the gates of the cities Mahanaim and Samaria. In these early writings there is also mention of a small number of ?keepers of the threshold? of the temple, whose duties included the gathering of money from the people for temple purposes, and the care of the sacred vessels (2Ki_12:9; 2Ki_22:4; 2Ki_23:4). They held an honorable position (2Ki_25:18), and occupied chambers in the temple (Jer_35:4). The same term is used to describe officers in the household of the king of Persia (Est_2:21; Est_6:2).
Differing from these ?keepers of the threshold? in some respects are the doorkeepers or porters mentioned in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. These formed a numerous sacred order (1Ch_9:22; 1Ch_23:5) from the time of David. Their duties and the words describing them in two passages, ?keepers of the thresholds? (1Ch_9:19) and ?porters of the thresholds? (2Ch_23:4), connect them in some measure with the ?keeper of the threshold? referred to above. They guarded the gates of the house of Yahweh (1Ch_9:23), closing and opening them at the proper times (1Ch_9:27) and preventing the unclean from entering the sacred enclosure (2Ch_23:19); they had charge of the sacred vessels and of the free-will offerings (2Ch_31:14), and dwelt in the chambers about the temple (1Ch_9:27). They were Levites, and came in from the Levitical villages every seventh day for service in their turn (1Ch_9:25). Their office was honorable, ranking with the singers, after the priests and Levites (Ezr_2:42; 1Ch_15:18).
In Psa_84:10, ?I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,? the word is not used in its technical sense. the Revised Version, margin gives ?stand (the King James Version margin ?sit?) at the threshold,? to an eastern mind a situation of deep humility (compare title of the Ps and 1Ch_9:19).
In the New Testament the order of temple doorkeepers is not referred to. But a doorkeeper (θυρωρός, thurōrós) is mentioned in connection with a private house (Mar_13:34), with the high priest's house (Joh_18:16, Joh_18:17), and with sheep-folds (Joh_10:3), a maid serving as doorkeeper in some cases (Act_12:13).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
dōr?kēp-ẽr (שׁוער, shō‛ēr): The gates of an oriental city and of the temple courts so closely resembled the door of a house that the same Hebrew word was used for doorkeeper and gatekeeper. It is often translated by the less definite word ?porter? (which see).
In the pre?xilic writings (2Sa_18:26; 2Ki_7:10, 2Ki_7:11) reference is made to porters at the gates of the cities Mahanaim and Samaria. In these early writings there is also mention of a small number of ?keepers of the threshold? of the temple, whose duties included the gathering of money from the people for temple purposes, and the care of the sacred vessels (2Ki_12:9; 2Ki_22:4; 2Ki_23:4). They held an honorable position (2Ki_25:18), and occupied chambers in the temple (Jer_35:4). The same term is used to describe officers in the household of the king of Persia (Est_2:21; Est_6:2).
Differing from these ?keepers of the threshold? in some respects are the doorkeepers or porters mentioned in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. These formed a numerous sacred order (1Ch_9:22; 1Ch_23:5) from the time of David. Their duties and the words describing them in two passages, ?keepers of the thresholds? (1Ch_9:19) and ?porters of the thresholds? (2Ch_23:4), connect them in some measure with the ?keeper of the threshold? referred to above. They guarded the gates of the house of Yahweh (1Ch_9:23), closing and opening them at the proper times (1Ch_9:27) and preventing the unclean from entering the sacred enclosure (2Ch_23:19); they had charge of the sacred vessels and of the free-will offerings (2Ch_31:14), and dwelt in the chambers about the temple (1Ch_9:27). They were Levites, and came in from the Levitical villages every seventh day for service in their turn (1Ch_9:25). Their office was honorable, ranking with the singers, after the priests and Levites (Ezr_2:42; 1Ch_15:18).
In Psa_84:10, ?I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,? the word is not used in its technical sense. the Revised Version, margin gives ?stand (the King James Version margin ?sit?) at the threshold,? to an eastern mind a situation of deep humility (compare title of the Ps and 1Ch_9:19).
In the New Testament the order of temple doorkeepers is not referred to. But a doorkeeper (θυρωρός, thurōrós) is mentioned in connection with a private house (Mar_13:34), with the high priest's house (Joh_18:16, Joh_18:17), and with sheep-folds (Joh_10:3), a maid serving as doorkeeper in some cases (Act_12:13).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
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