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Lexicon :: Strong's H5592 - sap̄

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סַף
Transliteration
sap̄
Pronunciation
saf
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From סָפַף (H5605), in its original sense of containing
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1538a,1538b

Strong’s Definitions

סַף çaph, 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H5592 in the following manner: door (12x), threshold (8x), bason (4x), posts (3x), bowls (2x), gates (2x), cup (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H5592 in the following manner: door (12x), threshold (8x), bason (4x), posts (3x), bowls (2x), gates (2x), cup (1x).

  1. a spreading out, basin, goblet, bowl

    1. basin, goblet

  2. threshold, sill

    1. threshold, sill, door-keeper

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סַף çaph, 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.
STRONGS H5592: Abbreviations
† I. סַף noun masculine basin, goblet (Late Hebrew סַף; Phoenician סף (Inscription of Tyre(1), 5, 6) SchrödZMG xxxix (1886), 317 f. Cl-GannAnnales du Musée Guimet x. 511 = Recuell d'arch. orient.(1886), 89 HalRÉJ xii.107 Bloch; but Lzb330 door-sill); — ס׳ absolutebasin Exodus 12:22 (twice in verse) (J; containing blood of passover lamb); construct סַףרַֿעַל Zechariah 12:2 goblet of reeling (intoxicating, figurative), probably also Habakkuk 2:15, where read מִסַּף חֲמָֽתְךָ from the goblet of thy fury (for MT ח'מְסַפֵּחַ, see I. ספח); plural absolute סַפּוֹת 2 Samuel 17:28 basins for ordinary use; הַסִּפִּים Jeremiah 52:19, הַסִּפּוֹת 1 Kings 7:50 and construct כֶּסֶף סִפּוֹת 2 Kings 12:14, of temple utensils.

II. סַף noun masculineAmos 9:1 threshold, sill (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician see Lzb1. סַף; Aramaic סִפָּא, bdb070606 Arabic sippu Dl509, all id.); — absolute ס׳ 2 Kings 12:10 +, also הַסָּ֑ף Judges 19:27 + 3 times (Baer Ginsb), הַסָּ֑ף 2 Kings 25:8; suffix סִפִּי Ezekiel 43:8, סִפָּם Ezekiel 43:8; plural סִפִּים Amos 9:1; Isaiah 6:4 + 6 times Ezra, Chronicles; — threshold, sill Judges 19:27; Amos 9:1; Isaiah 6:4; Ezekiel 41:16 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 43:8 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 3:7, הַבַּיִת ס׳ 1 Kings 14:17, הַשַּׁעַר ס׳ Ezekiel 40:6, 7, compare Ezekiel 40:6b שֹׁמֵרֹ הַסַּף = door-keeper, an important temple official, Jeremiah 35:4, so שֹׁמְרֵי הַסּ׳ 2 Kings 12:10 (priests), 2 Kings 22:4 2 Chronicles 34:9 (Levites!), 2 Kings 23:4; 2 Kings 25:18 = Jeremiah 52:24; in Persia, of palace Esther 2:21; Esther 6:2; of tabernacle הַסִּפִּים שׁ׳ 1 Chronicles 9:19; שֹׁעֲרֵי הַסּ׳ 2 Chronicles 23:4 (Levites), שֹׁעֲרִים בַּסּ׳ 1 Chronicles 9:22; collective חֹרֶב בַּסָּ֑ף Zephaniah 2:14 desolation in the thresholds.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

12:22

Judges

19:27; 19:27

2 Samuel

17:28

1 Kings

7:50; 14:17

2 Kings

12:10; 12:10; 12:14; 22:4; 23:4; 25:8; 25:18

1 Chronicles

9:19; 9:22

2 Chronicles

3:7; 23:4; 34:9

Esther

2:21; 6:2

Isaiah

6:4; 6:4

Jeremiah

35:4; 52:19; 52:24

Ezekiel

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

Amos

9:1; 9:1; 9:1

Habakkuk

2:15

Zephaniah

2:14

Zechariah

12:2

H5592

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Strong's Number H5592 matches the Hebrew סַף (sap̄),
which occurs 32 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:22 - “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - When her master arose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, there was his concubine, fallen at the door of the house with her hands on the threshold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - brought beds and basins, earthen vessels and wheat, barley and flour, parched grain and beans, lentils and parched seeds,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:50 - the basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17 - Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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 comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who kept the door put there all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - However there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, trimmers, sprinkling-bowls, trumpets, any articles of gold or articles of silver, from the money brought into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:4 - “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the articles that were made for Baal, for Asherah,[fn] and for all the host of heaven;[fn] and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:18 - And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:19 - Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, from his father’s house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, gatekeepers of the tabernacle. Their fathers had been keepers of the entrance to the camp of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All those chosen as gatekeepers were two hundred and twelve. They were recorded by their genealogy, in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their trusted office.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:7 - He also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:4 - “This is what you shall do: One-third of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and the Levites, shall be keeping watch over the doors;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:9 - When they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai sat within the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:4 - And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:4 - and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:19 - The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:24 - The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6 - Then he went to the gateway which faced east; and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gateway, which was one rod wide, and the other threshold was one rod wide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7 - Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide; between the gate chambers was a space of five cubits; and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one rod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:16 - their doorposts and the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with wood from the ground to the windows—the windows were covered—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - “When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:

“Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14 - The herds shall lie down in her midst,
Every beast of the nation.
Both the pelican and the bittern
Shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars;
Their voice shall sing in the windows;
Desolation shall be at the threshold;
For He will lay bare the cedar work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:2 - “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
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