מַשְׁקוֹף
mashkof · lintel
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4947 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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mashkof (מַשְׁקוֹף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lintel”.
The top beam of the door frame.
How to say it
mash·kof
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The beam across the top of a doorway.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 12:7
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
Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the bowl, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood that is in the bowl. As for you, none shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
- Exodus 12:23
For YHWH will pass through to strike Egypt; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, YHWH will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.