πυλωρός
gatekeeper, porter
Where this word appears
Every passage where πυλωρός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 30 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17 πυλωρός The doorkeepers; Salom, Acum, Telmon, and Diman, and their brethren; Salom was the chief;
- 1 Chronicles 9:21 πυλωρός Zacharias the son of Mosollami was keeper of the door of the tabernacle of witness.
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 πυλωρός and with them their brethren of the second rank, Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jeiel, and Elioel, and Eliab, and Banaia, and Maasaia, and Matthathia, and Eliphena, and Makellia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, the porters.
- 1 Chronicles 15:23 πυλωρός And Barachia and Elcana were doorkeepers of the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 15:24 πυλωρός And Somnia, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and Zacharia, and Banaea, and Eliezer, the priests, were sounding with trumpets before the ark of God: and Abdedom and Jeia were doorkeepers of the ark of God.
- 1 Chronicles 16:38 πυλωρός And Abdedom and his brethren were sixty and eight; and Abdedom the son of Idithun, and Osa, were to be doorkeepers.
- 1 Chronicles 23:5 πυλωρός and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.
- 1 Chronicles 26:19 πυλωρός These are the divisions of the porters for the sons of Core, and to the sons of Merari.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 πυλωρός And he established, according to the order of his father David, the courses of the priests, and that according to their public ministrations: and the Levites were appointed over their charges, to praise and minister before the priests according to the daily order: and the porters were appointed according to their courses to the different gates: for thus were the commandments of David the man of God.
- 2 Chronicles 23:19 πυλωρός And the porters stood at the gates of the house of the Lord, that no one unclean in any respect should enter in.
- 2 Chronicles 31:14 πυλωρός And Core, the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter eastward, was over the gifts, to distribute the first fruits of the Lord, and the most holy things,
- 2 Chronicles 34:13 πυλωρός And overseers were over the burden-bearers, and over all the workmen in the respective works; and of the Levites were appointed scribes, and judges, and porters.
- 2 Chronicles 35:15 πυλωρός And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers were at their post according to the commands of David, and Asaph, and Aeman, and Idithom, the prophets of the king: also, the chiefs and the porters of the several gates; —it was not for them to stir from the service of the holy things, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
- Ezra 2:42 πυλωρός The children of the porters, the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Acub, the children of Atita, the children of Sobai, in all one hundred and thirty-nine.
- Ezra 2:70 πυλωρός So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
- Ezra 7:7 πυλωρός And some of the children of Israel went up, and some of the priests, and of the Levites, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nathinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Arthasastha the king.
- Ezra 7:24 πυλωρός Also this has been declared to you, with respect to all the priests, and Levites, the singers, porters, Nathinim and ministers of the house of God, let no tribute be paid to you; you shall not have power to oppress them.
- Ezra 10:24 πυλωρός And of the singers; Elisab: and of the porters; Solmen, and Telmen, and Oduth.
- Ezra 17:1 πυλωρός
- Ezra 17:45 πυλωρός
- Ezra 17:73 πυλωρός
- Ezra 20:29 πυλωρός
- Ezra 20:40 πυλωρός
- Ezra 21:19 πυλωρός
- Ezra 22:25 πυλωρός
- Ezra 22:30 πυλωρός
- Ezra 22:45 πυλωρός
- Ezra 22:47 πυλωρός
- Ezra 23:5 πυλωρός
- Job 38:17 πυλωρός And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?
About this word
About this word
πυλωρός (pylōrós), “gatekeeper, porter,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 30 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →