Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4201

מְזוּזָה

me.zu.zah · “doorpost”

Used 19 times across 8 books

Definition

doorpost, gatepost

Where it appears

Exodus

4

Deuteronomy

2

Judges

1

1 Samuel

1

1 Kings

3

Proverbs

1

Isaiah

1

Ezekiel

6

In the text

Exodus 12:7And 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.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.1 Samuel 1:9So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.1 Kings 6:31And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.1 Kings 6:33So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.

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