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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Shalleketh (Shallecheth)
Not a person. It was a gate on the west side of the temple, on the causeway going up, and the gatekeepers Shuppim and Hosah were put in charge of it.
Not a person. It was a gate on the west side of the temple, on the causeway going up, and the gatekeepers Shuppim and Hosah were put in charge of it.
Shalleketh was not a person but the name of a gate on the western side of the Jerusalem temple complex, assigned to the gatekeepers Shuppim and Hosah along the ascending causeway (1 Chronicles 26:16). Its name, from a root meaning 'to cast' or 'throw down,' most likely refers to the raised causeway leading up to it, though the precise sense is debated.
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- 1 Chronicles 26:16
