Lintel
מַשְׁקוֹףStrong’s H4947mashqoph (mash-qoph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mashqoph is the Hebrew word usually translated “lintels”. It appears in 3 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
- Lintel (of door)
How it's translated
- the lintels 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
1 book 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.
Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׁקוֹף mashqoph · lintel
lintel (of door)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lintel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LINT'EL, noun
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.