Bolt
מַנְעוּלStrong’s H4514manul (man-ul)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Manul is the Hebrew word usually translated “bolts its” and “bolt”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.”
Meaning
- Bolt
How it's translated
- bolts its 4
- and bolts its 1
- the bolt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 5
- Song of Solomon 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 3:6Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
- Nehemiah 3:13The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
- Nehemiah 3:14But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
- Nehemiah 3:15But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
- Song of Solomon 5:5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
Hebrew dictionary
מַנְעוּל manul · bolt
bolt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bolt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOLT,noun
[Latin pello.]
- An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft.
- A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, etc.
- A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt
- The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas.
All definitions and other forms of “bolt”
BOLT, verb transitive
To fasten or secure with a bolt or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else.
- To fasten; to shackle; to restrain.
- To blurt out; to utter or throw out precipitately.
- To sift or separate bran from flour.
- Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys.
- To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. 'Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.' [Inelegant.]
- To purify; to purge. [Unusual.]
- To discuss or argue; as at Gray's inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers.
BOLT, verb intransitive
To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den.
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.