מְזוּזָה
me.zu.zah (H4201)
doorpost
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The Hebrew word מְזוּזָה (me.zu.zah) corresponds to the Strong's number H4201 and is used 19 times in the Bible. This term refers to a doorpost, a structural element found in architecture, particularly in traditional Middle Eastern homes and buildings. The term's focus on architecture and construction within the semantic domain of "Construction & Crafts" suggests its primary role is related to building design and physical structure. As a doorpost, it likely refers to vertical wooden or stone supports that secure doors and provide a frame for entry and exit points. Given its frequency in biblical usage (19 occurrences), the doorpost may hold significant meaning beyond its literal construction function. In certain contexts, the doorpost could serve as a transitional or threshold point between the inside and outside spaces of a home or building, highlighting the doorpost's role in defining interior and exterior boundaries.
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They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
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 door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates;
Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.
For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.
He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;
All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.
As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.
in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.