H5592 - סַף (çaph)

H5592 סַף (çaph) saf

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

saph saf From H5605, in its original sense of containing ; a vestibule (as a limit ); also a dish (for holding blood or wine): - bason, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold. LXX related word(s) G833 aule G1529 eis odos G2374 thura G4439 pule G4440 pulon

Derivation: from H5605 (סָפַף), in its original sense of containing;

KJV Usage: bason, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold.

TWOT Reference: 1538a,b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) a spreading out, basin, goblet, bowl

1a) basin, goblet

2) threshold, sill

2a) threshold, sill, door-keeper

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G833 G1529 G2374 G4439 G4440

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סַף saph BDB Definition: 1) a spreading out, basin, goblet, bowl 1a) basin, goblet 2) threshold, sill 2a) threshold, sill, door-keeper Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5605, in its original sense of containing Same Word by TWOT Number: 1538a, 1538b Total KJV Occurrences: 33

Bible Occurrences (28)

12:22

19:27

17:28

7:50 14:17

12:9 12:13 22:4 23:4 25:18

9:19 9:22

3:7 23:4 34:9

2:21 6:2

6:4

35:4 52:19 52:24

40:6 40:7 41:16 43:8

9:1

2:14

12:2

Exodus 12:22

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None... of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

Judges 19:27

In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out... on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

2 Samuel 17:28

[They brought] beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,...

1 Kings 7:50

the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place... as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

1 Kings 14:17

Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

2 Kings 12:9

Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 12:13

However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not [used for] making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold... or silver for the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 22:4

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers... have collected from the people.