תָּרָע
doorkeeper
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Every verse where H8652 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
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תרע (târâʻ) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “doorkeeper.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Ezra dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Ezra 7:24. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8652 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Porters 1×
- American Standard Version: Porters 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Doorkeepers 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gatekeepers 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8652 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8652 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8652 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8652 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- porter, doorkeeper (in temple)
Word origin
[ תָּרָע ] n.m. porter, doorkeeper, in temple: pl. emph. Ezr 7:24.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תרע (tᵉraʻ) (H8651) — gate.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תָּרַע
- (denom. of תְּרוּעָה), Hif. הִתְרִיעַ to sound alarm, esp. to blow the Shofar at public services (at fast and prayer meetings &c.). Y. Taan. II, 65ᵇ top כל שנה שאין מַתְרִיעִין … שמתריעין לה בסופה if people neglect to blow the Shofar at the beginning of the year, they will sound it at the end, v. רוּעַ I. Taan. III, 1 צמחים ששנו מתריעין עליהם מיד when plants change (degenerate), we blow (call prayer meetings) for them at once (without waiting for the first rain). Ib. 3 אותה העיר מתענה ומַתְרַעַת … ומַתְרִיעוֹת that town must fast and blow the Shofar (at prayer meeting), and all those around must fast, but not hold prayer meetings; מתריעות ולא מתענות must hold prayer meetings, but not fast. Ib. 7 על אלו מתריעין בשבת וכ׳ on the following occasions the alarm is sounded on the Sabbath: when a city is surrounded by gentiles, or threatened with a flood, &c., v. טָרַף; a. fr.
תְּרַע I
- (Tafel of רְעַע) to break, shatter, make a breach (corresp. to h. פָּרַץ, a. נָתַץ). Targ. Jdg. VI, 30. Ib. VIII, 9. Targ. II Sam. VI, 8; a. fr.—Part. pass. תְּרִיעַ; f. תְּרִיעָא broken into, open. Targ. Prov. XXV, 28.—Y. Peah I, 16ᵇ bot.; Y. Shebu. II, end, 33ᶜ, a. e. ותַרְעִין וכ׳, v. סוּג I ch. e.g. Judges 6:30
- same. Targ. O. Gen. XLIX, 6 תָּרַעוּ ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. תַּרְעוּ). Targ. O. Lev. XIV, 45 ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. Pe.). Targ. Ps. II, 9 תְּתָרָעִי׳ Ms. (ed. Pe.); a. fr.
- to be broken, shattered, be broken into. Targ. Prov. XXIX, 18 (h. text יפרע). Targ. Jer. XXXIX, 2. Targ. Jdg. VI, 28; a. fr.; v. רְעַע. e.g. Judges 6:28
תְּרַע
- c. (preced.)
- 1. [opening,] door, gate (corresp. to h. פֶּתח, a. שַׁעַר). Targ. Ex. XXXII, 27. Targ. Deut. XXII, 21; a. fr.—Lev. R. s. 58 ת׳ פתיחא if she finds the door open; ת׳ משקיף if she finds it shut. Num. R. s. 913, v. אָסֵי; a. fr.—[Yalk. Mic. 551, v. תַּרְעָיָיא.]—Pl. תַּרְעִין, תַּרְעַיָּא, תַּרְעַיָּיה, תַּרְעֵי. Targ. Y. Deut. III, 5. Targ. Is. XXVI, 2. Targ. Prov. XXXI, 31; a. fr.—Y. Shek. V, end, 49ᵇ ר׳ אבון עבד אילין ת׳ וכ׳ R. A. was building those gates of the Great College; a. fr.
- 2. = h. שַׁעַר market, market price. B. Bath. 90ᵇ, v. חֲרָפָא. B. Mets. 74ᵇ בחד ת׳ when prices remain unchanged; a. e.—Pl. as ab. Ib. בתרי ת׳ when there are two prices (prices have changed); a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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