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 would have gotten wheat; and they struck him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
And the gatekeepers were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of bronze;
For a day in your 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 gatekeeper opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.