LINTEL.See House, § 6.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
mashqowp, the upper crossbeam of a door. "The upper doorpost" (Exo_12:7; Exo_12:23). The word meant also to "look out," because there were grates or lattices above the door from whence the inmates could see who was outside. In 1Ki_6:31 for "lintel" translated 'ayil "the projection of the doorposts," occupying the fifth of the breadth of the wall (Keil). The entrance was four cubits broad, including the projecting doorposts, and each of the two wings of the folding doors about a cubit and a half broad, reckoning the projecting framework on either side at half a cubit in breadth. In Eze_40:9; Eze_40:21-24; Eze_40:26, "posts" (the same word 'ayil) mean projecting column faced fronts of the sides of the doorway, opposite one another. In Amo_9:1 for "lintel" translated the sphere-like capital of the column: kaphtoreyah. Zep_2:14, "the capitals of her columns," margin "the knops" ("pomegranate like at the tops of the houses," Grotius) or chapiters (capitals).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Lintel. The beam which forms the upper part of the framework of a door.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
lin?tel. See HOUSE, II, 1, (4).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Lintel
(prop. מִשְׁקוֹ, mashkoph', lit. a projecting cover; Exo_12:22; Exo_12:33; "upper door-post," Exo_12:7; also כִּפְתֹּר, kaphtor', a chaplet, i.e., capital of a column, Amo_9:1; Zep_2:14; elsewhere a "knop" of the candelabrum; and אִיַל, a'yil, a "ram," as often; hence a pilaster or pillar in a wall, 1Ki_6:31, elsewhere "post"), the head-piece of a door, or the horizontal beam covering the side-posts or jambs. SEE POST. This the Israelites were commanded to mark with the blood of the paschal lamb on the memorable occasion when the Passover was instituted. SEE PASSOVER.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.