Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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And behold, they came even to the midst of the house, taking wheat; and they will strike him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
The gate-keepers, Shallum and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum the head;
And those singing, Heman, Asaph and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to cause to hear;
For good a day in thine enclosures above a thousand. I chose to wait on the threshold in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tents of injustice.
To him the guard of the door opens; and the sheep hear his voice : and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
And Peter having knocked at the door of the gate, a young girl came near to listen, by name Rhoda.