Definition

a lintel

Etymology

from H8259 (שָׁקַף) in its original sense of overhanging;

Word family

• שָׁקַף shâqaph

How the KJV renders it

• lintel

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.