sha.ar denotes a gate or entry point, appearing in accounts of passage, guarding, building, and activity at city and house entrances.

The supplied verses use the noun for gates and entry points: places passed through, built into walls, assigned to gatekeepers, or used to locate people and public activity. Its plural construct forms also occur in regulations describing what happens “within” or “in” the people’s gates.

1. Gate or entry point · dominant

   The noun identifies a place of entry or passage in concrete settings. In 2 Kings 7:3 the supplied absolute singular form locates four leprous men at an entrance, while in 2 Kings 25:4 the APB renders soldiers fleeing “through the gate between the two walls.” Construct forms occur with named or associated entrances: 2 Chronicles 27:3 describes building the upper entrance of the house of the LORD, and 2 Chronicles 23:19 places gatekeepers at the entrances of that house.

   2 Kings 7:32 Kings 25:42 Chronicles 27:32 Chronicles 23:191 Chronicles 22:3Deuteronomy 12:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun with “gate” or “gates,” including named entrances, gates of a house, and gates associated with a city. Its wording confirms the setting of these clauses rather than supplying a separate lexical distinction.