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Gatekeeper Political Leader • Religious Leader • A person who guarded the entrance to the city. • A temple servant responsible for the care and protection of the temple, occasionally with other religious duties such as monetary collections. Concept › Cultural Ontology › Person › Political Leader › GatekeeperConcept › Cultural Ontology › Person › Religious Leader › Gatekeeper Of the Levites, 4,000 were appointed as porters by David, who were arranged according to their families to take charge of the doors and gates of the temple. They were sometimes employed as musicians. Also: City gatekeeper; Door-keeper; Doorkeeper; Doorkeepers; Gatekeepers; Janitor; Porter; Temple gatekeeper

Key Article 📷 Door-Keeper from Easton’s Bible Dictionary Door-keeper—This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., “stand at the threshold of,” etc.), but there it signifies properly “sitting at the threshold in the house of God.” The psalmist means that he would rather stand at the door of God’s house and merely look in, than dwell in houses where iniquity prevailed. Persons were appointed to keep the street door leading into the interior of the house (John 18:16, 17; Acts 12:13). Sometimes females held this post.