2 gate of king, i.e. palace, court, Daniel 2:29 (compare Esther 2:19, see שַׁ֫עַר. 3a; also Arabic gate, then the court of a sovereign; plural Sublime Porte, of Turkish court, see especially Dozy i. 124). Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.