Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid came to answer, named Rhoda.