Reference: Porter
Hastings
PORTER in English Version has always the sense of 'doorkeeper' (see House,
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They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.