STRONGS NUMBER H4947


Word Summary
mashqoph: probably lintel (of a door)
Original Word: מַשְׁקוֹף
Transliteration: mashqoph
Phonetic Spelling: (mash-kofe')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: probably lintel (of a door)
Meaning: probably lintel (of a door)
Strong's Concordance
lintel

From shaqaph in its original sense of overhanging; a lintel -- lintel.

see HEBREW shaqaph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4947. mashqoph

מַשְׁקוֺףnoun [masculine] probably lintel of door; — ׳הַמּExodus 12:7(P), 12:22; 12:23(J).

שׁקץ‎ (√ of following; compare Assyrian šikƒu, apparently a (skin-?) disease; Late Hebrew Pi`el שַׁקֵּץ‎, Aramaic Pa`el שַׁקֵּץdetest are denominative; RSJphil.xiv. 71ff. conjecture original meaning let fall, throw away, compare Arabic fall, drop down, but very dubious).