Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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And they came there into the midst of the house as though they were wheat merchants, and they smote him under the fifth rib; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
And the porters: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the head.
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, raised their voices with cymbals of brass;
for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
And as Peter knocked at the door of the patio, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.