Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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and, thither, entered they as fro as the middle of the house, to fetch wheat, and they smote him in the belly, - and, Rechab and Baanah his brother, escaped.
And, the keepers of the gates, were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, - and their brethren - Shallum the chief;
And, the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan, with cymbals of bronze, were to sound aloud;
For better is a day in thy courts, than a thousand, I choose rather to stand at the threshold in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of lawlessness.
To him, the porter openeth, and, the sheep, unto his voice, hearken: and, his own sheep, he calleth by name, and leadeth them forth.
And, when he had knocked at the door of the porch, there came unto it a maiden to hearken, by name Rhoda;