1 Chronicles 9:24
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible

The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

Young's Literal Translation

At four sides are the gatekeepers, east, west, north, and south.

King James Bible

In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

Hebrew
The gatekeepers
הַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים (haš·šō·‘ă·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7778: A gatekeeper

were stationed
יִהְי֖וּ (yih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

on the four
לְאַרְבַּ֣ע (lə·’ar·ba‘)
Preposition-l | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's 702: Four

sides:
רוּח֔וֹת (rū·ḥō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

east,
מִזְרָ֥ח (miz·rāḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4217: Place of sunrise, the east

west,
יָ֖מָּה (yām·māh)
Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

north,
צָפ֥וֹנָה (ṣā·p̄ō·w·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6828: Hidden, dark, the north as a, quarter

and south.
וָנֶֽגְבָּה׃ (wā·neḡ·bāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5045: South country, the Negeb, south

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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