סַףçaph
סַף: basin, goblet (Exodus 12:22; Zechariah 12:2; Habakkuk 2:15; 2 Samuel 17:28; Jeremiah 52:19)
Pronunciation: saf · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5592
Meanings
סַף: threshold, sill, שֹׁמֵרֹ הַסַּף = door-keeper, an important temple official (Amos 9:1; 2 Kings 12:10; Judges 19:27; 2 Kings 25:8; Ezekiel 43:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 32 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 12:22 Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door until morning.
- Judges 19:27 When her husband opened the door to leave, there lay his concubine with her hands on the threshold.
- 2 Samuel 17:28 They brought sleeping mats, cooking pots, serving bowls, wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans, lentils,
- 1 Kings 7:50 the small bowls, lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold; the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, with their fronts overlaid with gold.
- 1 Kings 14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife returned to Tirzah, and the child died just as she walked through the door of her home.
- 2 Kings 12:9 Then Jehoiada the priest bored a hole in the lid of a large chest and set it on the right-hand side of the altar at the entrance of the Temple of the Lord. The priests guarding the entrance put all of the people’s contributions into the chest.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).