lintel

«lintel» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The beam across the top of a door or window, resting on… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The beam across the top of a door or window, resting on the side posts. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: On the first Passover night, the Israelites put lamb's blood on the two side posts and the lintel of their houses. Interpretation: Tradition reads the blood on the doorposts as a sign of faith and obedience, so that God would pass over those houses. It is remembered at the Passover seder.

examples

• And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. (Torah EXO.12.7, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lintel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.