Strong’s H4947 · Hebrew

מַשְׁקוֹף
mashqôwph
mash-kofe'

Definition

a lintel

Etymology

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

Where 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.

What the first audience heard

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