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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(hanged). A pivot and socket for swinging doors (1 Kings 7:50⁵⁰And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple. (1 Kings 7:50); Prov. 26:14¹⁴As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. (Proverbs 26:14)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The only hinges handed down from antiquity are pivots projecting above and below the door, on which the door turned. In the temple the hinges were of gold, and may have been of this description (1 Kings 7:50⁵⁰And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple. (1 Kings 7:50); Prov. 26:14¹⁴As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. (Proverbs 26:14)). In ancient existing houses with stone doors the hinges are stone projections at the top and bottom of the doors.

From Manners and Customs of the Bible:

Proverbs 26:14¹⁴As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. (Proverbs 26:14). As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

The hinges of Eastern houses are not like ours, but consist of pivots inserted into sockets both above and below. In the Hauran there are still standing stone houses with stone slabs for doors, having pivots cut out of the same and turning in sockets prepared for them in the wall of the house.

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