manul · bolt, lock

What it means

manul (מַנְעוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bolt, lock”.

The piece that closes a door.

How to say it

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

1. Lock, bolt of a door.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• locks ×5
• bolt ×1

Where it appears

• Nehemiah×5
• Song of Songs×1

• Nehemiah 3:3

  And the Fish Gate the sons of Senaah built; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:6

  And the Old Gate Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:13

  The Valley Gate Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired; they built it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.

• Nehemiah 3:14

  And the Dung Gate Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired; he built it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:15

  And the Fountain Gate Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired; he built it and roofed it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

• Song of Songs 5:5

  I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped myrrh, and my fingers myrrh that flows, on the handles of the bolt.