Quick Definition
to stand
Strong's Definition
to wait at the threshold
Derivation: a primitive root; properly, to snatch away, i.e. terminate; but used only as denominative from H5592 (סַף) (in the sense of a vestibule),
KJV Usage: be a doorkeeper.
TWOT Reference: 1538c
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) (Hithpoel) to stand at or guard the threshold
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סָפַף (sa.phaph) — to stand. (Hithpoel) to stand at or guard the threshold
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · סַף
Professions | verb hit
to stand at the threshold to stand at the threshold of a building; ► possibly serving as a guard or doorkeeper
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
ספף vb. denom. Hithpô‛. stand at or guard, threshold;—ψ 84:11 ref