◄ 5605. saphaph ►
Lexicon
saphaph: To stand at the threshold, to guard, to wait at the door

Original Word: סָפַף
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: caphaph
Pronunciation: sah-FAHF
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-faf')
KJV: be a doorkeeper
NASB: stand at the threshold
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. (properly) to snatch away, i.e. terminate
2. but used only as denominative from H5592 (in the sense of a vestibule), to wait at the threshold

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
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

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.

Forms and Transliterations
הִ֭סְתּוֹפֵף הסתופף his·tō·w·p̄êp̄ Histofef histōwp̄êp̄
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Englishman's Concordance
Psalm 84:10
HEB: מֵ֫אָ֥לֶף בָּחַ֗רְתִּי הִ֭סְתּוֹפֵף בְּבֵ֣ית אֱלֹהַ֑י
NAS: a thousand [outside]. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house
KJV: I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house
INT: A thousand had rather stand of the house of my God

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 5605
1 Occurrence


his·tō·w·p̄êp̄ — 1 Occ.

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