1 Chronicles 9:24
Strong's Lexicon
The gatekeepers
הַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים (haš·šō·‘ă·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7778: 1) gatekeeper, porter

were stationed
יִהְי֖וּ (yih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

on the four
לְאַרְבַּ֣ע (lə·’ar·ba‘)
Preposition-l | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 702: 1) four

sides:
רוּח֔וֹת (rū·ḥō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7307: 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

east,
מִזְרָ֥ח (miz·rāḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4217: 1) place of sunrise, east 1a) sunrise, east (with 'sun') 1b) the east (without 'sun') 1b1) to or toward the place of sunrise 1b2) to the east, eastward

west,
יָ֖מָּה (yām·māh)
Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3220: 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward

north,
צָפ֥וֹנָה (ṣā·p̄ō·w·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6828: 1) north (of direction), northward 1a) north 1b) northward

and south.
וָנֶֽגְבָּה׃ (wā·neḡ·bāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5045: 1) south-country, Nekeb, south 1a) south-country 1a1) region of southern Judah, boundaries not specific 1b) south

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

Young's Literal Translation
At four sides are the gatekeepers, east, west, north, and south.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

New American Standard Bible
The gatekeepers were on the four sides, to the east, west, north and south.

King James Bible
In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north and south.

New Living Translation
The gatekeepers were stationed on all four sides--east, west, north, and south.

English Standard Version
The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south.

New American Standard Bible
The gatekeepers were on the four sides, to the east, west, north and south.

King James Bible
In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

International Standard Version
The guardians were stationed on four sides—east, west, north, and south.

NET Bible
The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides--east, west, north, and south.

American Standard Version
On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

English Revised Version
On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

Young's Literal Translation
At four sides are the gatekeepers, east, west, north, and south.
















Cross References
2 Kings 7:10
So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.

1 Chronicles 9:23
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.

1 Chronicles 9:25
And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

1 Chronicles 9:22
All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

1 Chronicles 9:21
And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

1 Chronicles 9:26
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

1 Chronicles 9:27
And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
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