Hinge

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HINGE.?See House, ? 6.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

In the Hauran the door was often a stone slab with a stone pivot above and below of the same piece, fitting into corresponding sockets. (Pro_26:14). As the door moves round the same center, and cannot be separated from it, it moves indeed, but not forward; so the slothful man lies now on this side now on that, but will not be torn from his bed.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.

Hinge. Both ancient Egyptian and modern Oriental doors were and are hung by means of pivots, turning in sockets, on both the upper and lower sides. 1Ki_7:50. In Syria, and especially the Hauran, there are many ancient doors consisting of stone slabs with pivots, carved out of the same piece, inserted in sockets, above and below, and fixed during the building of the house. The allusion in Pro_26:14 is thus clearly explained.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

hinj (פת, pōth): Hinges of Jewish sacred buildings in Scripture are mentioned only in connection with Solomon's temple. Here those for the doors, both of the oracle and of the outer temple, are said to have been of gold (1Ki_7:50). By this is probably to be understood that the pivots upon which the doors swung, and which turned in the sockets of the threshold and the lintel, were cased in gold. The proverb, ?As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the sluggard upon his bed? (Pro_26:14), describes the ancient mode of ingress and egress into important edifices. In the British Museum are many examples of stone sockets taken from Babylonian and Assyrian palaces and temples, engraved with the name and titles of the royal builder; while in the Hauran doors of a single slab of stone with stone pivots are still found in situ. Hinges, as we understand the word, were unknown in the ancient world. See HOUSE II, 1.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

1Ki_7:50 (c) The hinges tell of the motives which actuate the life of the Christian. The inner motives of the private life, and the outer motive of the public life are to be pure, rich, and valuable as gold is valuable and rich.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.

Hinge
(צַיר, tsir, that upon which a door revolves, Pro_26:14; also the pangs of childbirth, Isa_13:8, etc.; also a messenger, Pro_13:17, etc.; פֹּת, poth, lit. zan interstice, put. for pudenda. muliebra, Isa_3:17; fig, female hinges, i.e. the eyes or parts with sockets, 1Ki_7:50). “Doors in the East turn rather on pivots than what we term hinges. They were. sometimes of metal, but generally of the same material as the door itself, and worked in sockets above and below in the door- frame. As the weight of the door rests on the lower pivot, it opens with much less ease than one moving on hinges, particularly when the lower socket becomes worn by the weight and friction.” — Pict. Bible, note on Pro_26:14. “In Syria, and especially the Hauran, there are many ancient doors consisting of stone slabs with pivots carved out of the same piece, inserted in sockets above and below, and fixed during the building of the house. The allusion in Pro_26:14 is thus clearly explained. The hinges mentioned in 1Ki_7:50, were probably of the Egyptian kind, attached to the upper and lower sides of the door (Buckingham, Arab Tribes, p. 177; Porter, Damascus, 2, 22, 192; Maundrell, Early Travels, p. 447, 448 [Bohn]; Shaw, Travels, p. 210; Lord Lindsay, Letters, p. 292; Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt. abridgm. 1, 15).” SEE DOOR.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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