Bible Dictionary: Lintel

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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Lintel

the beam which forms the upper part of the framework of a door.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) Hebrews mashkoph, a projecting cover (Exodus 12:22, 23; ver. 7, "upper door post, " but R.V. "lintel"); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites were commanded to Mark with the blood of the paschal lamb.

(2.) Hebrews kaphtar. Amos 9:1; Zephaniah 2:14 (R.V. correctly "chapiters, " as in A.V. marg.).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

LINTEL

lin'-tel.

See HOUSE, II, 1, (4).

Strong's Hebrew

4947. mashqoph -- probably lintel (of a door)
... 4946, 4947. mashqoph. 4948 . probably lintel (of a door). Transliteration:
mashqoph Phonetic Spelling: (mash-kofe') Short Definition: lintel. ...
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352. ayil -- a ram
... 351c, 352. ayil. 352a . a ram. Transliteration: ayil Phonetic Spelling:
(ah'-yil) Short Definition: ram. mighty man, lintel, oak, post, ram, tree ...
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3730. kaphtor -- capital, knob, bulb
... knop, upper lintel. Or (Am. 9:1) kaphtowr {kaf-tore'}; probably from an
unused root meaning to encircle; a chaplet; but used only ...
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352b. ayil -- a projecting pillar or pilaster
... Word Origin from the same as ulam Definition a projecting pillar or pilaster NASB
Word Usage lintel (1), side pillar (4), side pillars (17). 352a, 352b. ...
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Library

The Escape from Egypt
... You shall also take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin
and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the escape from egypt.htm

Psalm LXXXI.
... end for the presses, on the fifth of the Sabbath, a Psalm to Asaph himself." Into
one title many mysteries are heaped together, still so that the lintel of the ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxxi.htm

The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon. )
... I showed, in the early part of this discourse, that the blood sprinkled on the lintel
and the two side-posts of the door preserved the Israelites on the night ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 32 1886/the blood of sprinkling second.htm

Christ Our Passover
... My heart rejoices to look on him whom I have pierced, and see his blood, as the
lamb's blood, sprinkled on my lintel and my door-post, and see his bones ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/christ our passover.htm

Synagogues: their Origin, Structure and Outward Arrangements
... are expressly told in verse 59: "These things said He in the synagogue, as He taught
in Capernaum." But what is so remarkable is, that the very lintel of this ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 16 synagogues their origin.htm

The Blood
... It was so that night in Egypt. God himself was abroad with his sword; but he spared
them, because he saw the blood-mark on the lintel and on the two sideposts. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the blood.htm

Arria and Her Mother Sat with the Emperor. ...
... A plate of polished brass hung on its lintel, bearing in large letters the
word Salve. A slave opened the door and took his pallium. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 5 arria and her.htm

The Schoolboy of Madaura
... oil and fodder, and the noise of men and of beasts of burthen, and of the camels
as they entered majestically, curving their long necks under the lintel of the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/v the schoolboy of madaura.htm

The Conspiracy
... I should still be a penniless prince, more useless than ever." He sat down on
the broad lintel capping the parapet, but retained her hand. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxxi the conspiracy.htm

Canaan on Earth
... up out of Egypt was the type of the deliverance which every one of God's people
enjoys, when by faith he strikes the blood of Jesus on his lintel and his ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/canaan on earth.htm

Thesaurus

Lintel (4 Occurrences)
... 7, "upper door post, " but RV "lintel"); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites
were commanded to Mark with the blood of the paschal lamb. ...LINTEL. ...
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Door-posts (11 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two door-posts
and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. (DBY). ...
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Side-posts (7 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts
and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. ...
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Posts (68 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts
and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. ...
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Doorposts (15 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and
on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. (WEB NAS RSV). ...
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Doorframe (3 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is
in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood ...
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Post (26 Occurrences)
... XI. of France in AD 1464. (2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel
or threshold (Isaiah 6:4). Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Door (249 Occurrences)
... The doorway was enclosed by the stone threshold (1 Kings 14:17), the two doorposts
on either side, and the lintel above (Exodus 12:7). Doors were frequently two ...
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Opening (242 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:22 and ye have taken a bunch of hyssop, and have dipped 'it' in the blood
which 'is' in the basin, and have struck 'it' on the lintel, and on the two ...
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Strike (168 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in
the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is ...
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Bible Concordance

Lintel (4 Occurrences)

Exodus 12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 12:23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Kings 6:31 For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Lintel

Related Terms

Door-posts (11 Occurrences)

Side-posts (7 Occurrences)

Posts (68 Occurrences)

Doorposts (15 Occurrences)

Doorframe (3 Occurrences)

Post (26 Occurrences)

Door (249 Occurrences)

Opening (242 Occurrences)

Strike (168 Occurrences)