Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
doorpost
Usage: doorpost, gatepost
mzuwzah - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4201 — porkios (“Porcius”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4201 מְזוּזָה מְזוּזָה (mzuwzah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mzuwzah (mez-oo-zaw') (or mzuzah {mez-oo-zaw'}) n-f. 1. a door-post (as prominent) [from the same as H2123] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include door, doors, posts, and post. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mzuwzah (mez-oo-zaw') (or mzuzah {mez-oo-zaw'}) n-f. 1. a door-post (as prominent) [from the same as H2123] KJV: (door, side) post. Root(s): H2123
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doorpost
Usage: doorpost, gatepost
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mzuwzah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
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 with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
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, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4201.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
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 with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
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, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, 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.
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 of the temple of the LORD.
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Behind the doors also and the posts 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.
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post 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.
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 of the gate of the inner court.
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, 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 forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4201, grouped by book.
Strong's H4201 is a Hebrew entry for H4201 מְזוּזָה מְזוּזָה (mzuwzah). mzuwzah (mez-oo-zaw') (or mzuzah {mez-oo-zaw'}) n-f. 1. a door-post (as prominent) [from the same as H2123]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H4201 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4201 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as door, doors, posts, and post. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.