A temple gatekeeper during the period of return from exile. Ezra 2:42The descendants of the gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hadida, and Shobai, in all 139. Nehemiah 7:45The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hadida, the descendants of Shobai, in all 138.