Biblica Analytica

סַף

saph (H5592B)

threshold

25 verses 11 books OT 22 / NT 0
AI Word Study

The Hebrew word 'saph' (Strong's number: H5592B) is defined as a "threshold." This term likely refers to the raised sill at the entrance to a room, building, or structure, marking the transition from outside to inside. With 25 occurrences in the Bible, its usage is relatively widespread. As a word from the semantic domain of "Agriculture & Land," 'saph' may also be used metaphorically to convey themes related to boundaries, transition, and entry/exit points. This extension of meaning could be significant in biblical contexts where it is used. In considering the practical applications of this word, we can infer that its usage would often be tied to themes of entrance and transition in both literal and figurative senses. Its repeated use throughout the Hebrew scriptures underscores its importance in conveying meaning beyond its surface definition.

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Judges 19:27

Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

1 Kings 14:17

Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

2 Kings 12:9

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

2 Kings 22:4

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

2 Kings 23:4

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 25:18

The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

1 Chronicles 9:19

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.

1 Chronicles 9:22

All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.

2 Chronicles 3:7

He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

2 Chronicles 23:4

This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.

2 Chronicles 34:9

They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Esther 2:21

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 6:2

It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Isaiah 6:4

The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Jeremiah 35:4

and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

Jeremiah 52:24

The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

Ezekiel 40:6

Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.

Ezekiel 40:7

Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

Ezekiel 41:16

the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

Ezekiel 43:8

in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

Zephaniah 2:14

Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.