Doorpost
מְזוּזָהStrong’s H4201mezuzah (me-zu-zah)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mezuzah is the Hebrew word usually translated “doorposts of”, “doorposts” and “doorpost of”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.”
Meaning
- Doorpost, gatepost
How it's translated
- doorposts of 5
- the doorposts 4
- doorpost of 4
- the doorpost 1
- and the doorposts 1
- and the doorpost 1
- a doorpost of 1
- and doorpost their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 4
- Ezekiel 4
- 1 Kings 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
- Exodus 12:23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
- Exodus 21:6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
- Deuteronomy 6:9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 11:20And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
- Judges 16:3And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Hebrew dictionary
מְזוּזָה mezuzah · doorpost
doorpost, gatepost
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “doorpost” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DOOR-POST, noun
The post of a door.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.