man.ul denotes a bolt or fastening set with doors and gates, also appearing as a singular bolt in a doorway scene.

The word denotes a fastening associated with doors and gates: in the Nehemiah rebuilding clauses it is set up with doors and bars, while Song of Songs 5:5 places the singular item at a doorway.

1. Door and gate fastening · dominant

   The plural construct forms occur in gate-building clauses: in Nehemiah 3:3, Nehemiah 3:6, Nehemiah 3:13, Nehemiah 3:14, and Nehemiah 3:15 the APB renders the work as setting up doors, “bolts,” and bars. In Song of Songs 5:5, the singular absolute form occurs as the speaker opens to her beloved; the APB renders the scene with “the handles of the bolt.”

   Nehemiah 3:3Nehemiah 3:6Nehemiah 3:13Nehemiah 3:14Nehemiah 3:15Song of Songs 5:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the Nehemiah verses, the APB presents the term within the repeated sequence “doors, its bolts, and its bars”; in Song of Songs 5:5 it uses “the bolt.” These are presentations of the verse clauses rather than definitions.