Mᵉzûwzâh — H4201

Definition

feminine noun

a door-post (as prominent)

1. doorpost, gatepost

Usually translated as

post

Origin

or mᵉzuzâh; from the same as H2123

• Same as Zîyz (H2123)

Greek equivalents

• anaptýssō (G380)
• stoá (G4745)

Occurrences

Mᵉzûwzâh occurs 19 times in 17 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (4), Deuteronomy (2), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (3), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (4)

• Exodus 12:7 — And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts (הַמְּזוּזֹ֖ת) and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
• Exodus 12:22 — And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts (הַמְּזוּזֹ֔ת) with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
• Exodus 12:23 — For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts (הַמְּזוּזֹ֑ת), the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
• Exodus 21:6 — Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post (הַמְּזוּזָ֑ה); and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
• Deuteronomy 6:9 — And thou shalt write them upon the posts (מְזוּזֹ֥ת) of thy house, and on thy gates.
• Deuteronomy 11:20 — And thou shalt write them upon the door posts (מְזוּז֥וֹת) of thine house, and upon thy gates:
• Judges 16:3 — And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts (הַמְּזוּז֔וֹת), and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
• 1 Samuel 1:9 — So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post (מְזוּזַ֖ת) of the temple of the LORD.
• 1 Kings 6:31 — And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts (מְזוּז֖וֹת) were a fifth part of the wall.
• 1 Kings 6:33 — So also made he for the door of the temple posts (מְזוּז֣וֹת) of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
• 1 Kings 7:5 — And all the doors and posts (וְהַמְּזוּז֖וֹת) were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
• Proverbs 8:34 — Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts (מְזוּזֹ֥ת) of my doors.
• Isaiah 57:8 — Behind the doors also and the posts (וְהַמְּזוּזָ֔ה) hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
• Ezekiel 41:21 — The posts (מְזוּזַ֣ת) of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
• Ezekiel 43:8 — In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post (וּמְזֽוּזָתָם֙) by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
• Ezekiel 43:8 — In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts (מְזוּזָתִ֔י), and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
• Ezekiel 45:19 — And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts (מְזוּזַ֣ת) of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
• Ezekiel 45:19 — And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts (מְזוּזַ֔ת) of the gate of the inner court.
• Ezekiel 46:2 — And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post (מְזוּזַ֣ת) 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 forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.