Bible dictionaries

Lintel

What Bible dictionaries say about “Lintel”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Lintel - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(1.) Heb. mashkoph, a projecting cover (Ex. 12:22, 23; ver. 7, "upper door post," but R.V. "lintel"); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites were commanded to mark with the blood of the paschal lamb.

(2.) Heb. kaphtar. Amos 9:1; Zeph. 2:14 (R.V. correctly "chapiters," as in A.V. marg.).

Lintel - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

LINT'EL, n.

The head-piece of a door-frame or window-frame; the part of the frame that lies on the side-pieces. Exo 41.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

lin'-tel.

See HOUSE, II, 1, (4).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

the beam which forms the upper part of the framework of a door.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith