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hebrew #5605 - סָפַף saphaph (to stand at or guard the threshold)


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


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Hithpoel) to stand at or guard the threshold
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1538c

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[ספףverb denominative Hithpô`.stand at, or guard, the threshold; — Infinitive constructבָּחַ֫רְתִּיאֱלֹהַיהִסְתּוֺפֵף בְּבֵיתPsalm 84:11I choose standing at the threshold in the house of my God.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5605. סָפַף (saphaph) — 1 Occurrence

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

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