Lexicon saphaph: to stand at or guard the threshold Original Word: סָפַףPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: saphaph Phonetic Spelling: (saw-faf') Short Definition: threshold NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origindenominative verb from saphDefinitionto stand at or guard the threshold NASB Translationstand 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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