# מְזוּזָה (mezuzah)

Israeli respelling: mezu-zah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4201. 17 Old Testament occurrences.

a door-post (as prominent)

King James renderings: (door, side) post.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/mezuzah-h4201

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Exodus 12:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 bl…
- [Exodus 12:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 wil…
- [Exodus 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/9) — And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
- [Deuteronomy 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/20) — And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
- [Judges 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Samuel 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t…
- [1 Kings 6:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [1 Kings 6:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/33) — So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
- [1 Kings 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/5) — And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
- [Proverbs 8:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/34) — Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- [Isaiah 57:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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;…
- [Ezekiel 41:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Ezekiel 43:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 45:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 46:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 pre…