King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5605
Transliteration: saphaph
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-faf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to stand at or guard the threshold
Meaning: to stand at or guard the threshold
Word Summary
saphaph: to stand at or guard the threshold
Original Word: סָפַףTransliteration: saphaph
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-faf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to stand at or guard the threshold
Meaning: to stand at or guard the threshold
Strong's 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
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5605. saphaph
[ספף verb denominative Hithpô`. stand at, or guard, the threshold; — Infinitive construct בְּבֵית הִסְתּוֺפֵף אֱלֹהַי בָּחַ֫רְתִּי Psalm 84:11 I choose standing at the threshold in the house of my God.