mezuza · doorpost

What it means

mezuza (מְזוּזָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “doorpost”.

Each of the two side posts of a door frame.

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. The side frames of the door, where the blood was put.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• doorposts ×10
• doorpost ×9

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×6

• 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.

• Exodus 21:6

  then his master shall bring him before Elohim; he shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

• Deuteronomy 6:9

  You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

• Deuteronomy 11:20

  You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

• Judges 16:3

  And Samson lay until midnight; then at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and of the two doorposts, and pulled them up with the bar, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.

• 1 Samuel 1:9

  And Hannah rose after eating in Shiloh and after drinking. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of YHWH.

• 1 Kings 6:31

  And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were five-sided.

• 1 Kings 6:33

  And so he made for the entrance of the temple doorposts of olive wood, four-sided,

• 1 Kings 7:5

  And all the entrances and the doorposts were square, with frame; and opposite, window to window, three times.

• Proverbs 8:34

  Happy is the man who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, guarding the doorposts of my entrances.

• Isaiah 57:8

  And behind the door and the doorpost you have set your memorial; for away from me you uncovered yourself, and went up, you widened your bed; and you made a covenant for yourself with them; you loved their bed; their hand you gazed on.

• Ezekiel 41:21

  The temple: a square doorpost; and the front of the sanctuary, the appearance was like the appearance.

• Ezekiel 43:8

  by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost beside my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them; and they defiled my holy name by their abominations that they committed; so I consumed them in my anger.

• Ezekiel 45:19

  And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorpost of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

• Ezekiel 46:2

  And the chief shall come in by way of the portico of the gate from outside and stand by the doorpost of the gate, and the priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings; and he shall bow down on the threshold of the gate, and go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

And 2 more times.