Hinge

The hinge was a device for attaching two things in a way that they were free to swing relative to each other. On a door the hinge was the point at which the door was attached at the top (the lintel) and at the base (the threshold) or to the doorpost (if there was one), allowing the door to swing open or closed. Hinges for doors of simple dwellings were often just extensions of the wooden door that stood in indentations or sockets in the stone lintel and threshold of the doorway. Hinges for larger doors were made of metal. A metal hinge consisted of three parts: two leaves, one attached to the door and one to the wall or doorpost, and a metal pin that held them together.

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

Also in Door, doorway

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema