מַשְׁקוֹף
mashqôwph · H4947 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Thing
- LintelDoor, doorway3 verses
Meanings
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lintel
The horizontal support, usually timber or stone, across the top of a door
ExamplesExodus 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.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- אֵלto, toward 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- אַיִל ʼayil · H352 · ram, leader, chief
- אַיִל in its architectural sense refers to doorposts or jambs (the vertical side posts of a doorway), which are the immediate structural counterparts to the horizontal lintel (מַשְׁקוֹף). Both are parts of the doorway frame, though אַיִל is vertical and מַשְׁקוֹף is horizontal. Used in Ezekiel's temple descriptions.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Buildings001003002001
- מַשְׁקוֹף names the lintel, the horizontal beam above a doorway, occurring in the Passover instructions of Exodus 12 where blood is applied to the lintel and two doorposts, identifying it as a structural component of a house's doorway.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root שָׁקַף
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4947. mashqoph מַשְׁקוֺף noun [masculine] probably lintel of door; — ׳הַמּ Exo 12:7(P),…
מַשְׁקוֺף noun [masculine] probably lintel of door; — ׳הַמּ Exo 12:7(P), Exo 12:22; Exo 12:23(J).
שׁקץ (√ of following; compare Assyrian šikƒu, apparently a (skin-?) disease; Late Hebrew Pi`el שַׁקֵּץ, Aramaic Pa`el שַׁקֵּץ detest are denominative; RSJphil.xiv. 71ff. conjecture original meaning let fall, throw away, compare Arabic fall, drop down, but very dubious).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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