Mezuzah מְזוּזָה

Mezuzah (Hebrew מְזוּזָה, Strong's H4201) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “doorpost”. It occurs 19 times in 17 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Mezuzah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 12:7
  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.They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
• 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 with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until 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, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
• 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; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 6:9
  And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
• Deuteronomy 11:20
  And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

Judges

• 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, 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.But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

1 Samuel

• 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 of the temple of the Lord.So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 6:31
  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.For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
• 1 Kings 6:33
  So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.
• 1 Kings 7:5
  And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 8:34
  Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 57:8
  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.Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 41:21
  The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.
• Ezekiel 43:8
  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.When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
• 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 of the gate of the inner court.And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts 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 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.The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).