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    Usher

    USH-er

    Meaning

    Doorkeeper; One who guides

    English origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Usher keeps the door of God's house — choosing the threshold over wickedness, receiving grace and glory, the doorkeeper who walks uprightly.

    Verses · King James Version

    “I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

    Psalm 84:10

    “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

    Psalm 84:11

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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