Word

מְזוּזָה

mᵉzûwzâh · H4201 · Hebrew · 19 occurrences

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Thing

DoorpostDoor, doorway20 verses

Meanings

doorpost

Upright part of a door frame; a few passages mention square door frames and in such cases the horizontal elements are also referred to as doorposts

Examples
Exodus 12:7 ‘Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
Exodus 12:22 “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.
Exodus 12:23 “For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; but when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
entrance, doorway

Literally: doorposts of the doorway; hence: entrance to a building

Examples
Proverbs 8:34 “Blessed is the person who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts.
threshold and doorpost > house

Literally: threshold and doorpost, here used metaphorically to refer to the entire construction: building

Examples
Ezekiel 43:8 by putting their threshold by My threshold, and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

12 occurrences in 9 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 3
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁנַיִםtwo 4

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רָבַעto lie down 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הֵיכָלtemple, palace 1
אַיִלram 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

13 occurrences in 5 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against 9
אֵלto, toward 3
אַחַרafter, behind 2
אֵצֶלbeside 1
בin/on/with 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Constructions001003002: מְזוּזָה names a doorpost, the vertical structural framing of an entrance, as at the Passover instruction to mark "the doorposts" with blood (Exodus 12:7) and the command to write God's words on the doorposts of one's house (Deuteronomy 6:9).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זִיז zîyz · H2123 · creatures of the field, nipple · 3×מְזוּזָהmᵉzûwzâh · H4201

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4201. mezuzah מְזוּזָה noun feminine door-post, gate-post, absolute ׳מ Exo 21:6; Isa…

H4201. mezuzah
מְזוּזָה noun feminine door-post, gate-post, absolute ׳מ Exo 21:6; Isa 57:8; construct מְזוּזַת 1Sa 1:9; Eze 46:2 + Eze 41:21 (strike out ᵑ6 Co compare ᵐ5 Hi), Eze 45:19 (twice in verse) (in both ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 מְזוּזוֺת Co); suffix מְזוּזָתִי Eze 43:8, מְזוּזָתָם Eze 43:8; plural מְזוּזוֺת 1Ki 6:31 1Ki 6:2t. (+ Eze 45:19 (twice in verse) Co see above), מְזוּזֹת Exo 12:7 Exo 12:4t., מְזֻזוֺת Deu 6:9; Jdg 16:3; — door-post, gate-post,
1 of dwelling-house Exo 12:7 (P), Exo 12:22; Exo 12:23; Exo 21:6 (all J E), Deu 6:9; Deu 11:20 compare Isa 57:8; also ׳מ מְּתָחָ֑י Pro 8:34, מְזוּזָתָם Eze 43:8; of Solomon's house 1Ki 7:5.
2 of house of ׳י:
a. of the pre-Solomonic sanctuary of ׳י 1Sa 1:9.
b. of Solomon's temple 1Ki 6:33; of the דְּבִיר 1Ki 6:31.
c. of Ezekiel's temple Eze 41:21 (strike out Co see above), Eze 43:8 (מְזוּזָתִי), ׳מ הַבַּיִת Eze 45:19, ׳מ שַׁעַר Eze 45:9, compare Eze 46:2.
3 of city-gates Jdg 16:3.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Constructions18 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0