5605. saphaph
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saphaph: to stand at or guard the threshold
Original Word: סָפַף
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: saphaph
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-faf')
Short Definition: threshold

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
denominative verb from saph
Definition
to stand at or guard the threshold
NASB Translation
stand at the threshold (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[ספף verb denominative Hithpô`. stand at, or guard, the threshold; — Infinitive construct בָּחַ֫רְתִּי אֱלֹהַי הִסְתּוֺפֵף בְּבֵית Psalm 84:11 I choose standing at the threshold in the house of my God.



Strong's
be a doorkeeper

A primitive root; properly, to snatch away, i.e. Terminate; but used only as denominative from caph (in the sense of a vestibule), to wait at the threshold -- be a doorkeeper.

see HEBREW caph

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