Lexical Summary miphtan: threshold Original Word: מִפְתָּןTransliteration: miphtan Phonetic Spelling: (mif-tawn') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: threshold Meaning: a stretcher, a sill Strong's Concordance threshold From the same as pethen; a stretcher, i.e. A sill -- threshold. see HEBREW pethen Brown-Driver-Briggs H4670. miphtan מִפְתָּן noun [masculine] threshold (compare Late Hebrew מָּתִין cross-beam; ? Arabic carpenter;); — absolute ׳מ 1 Samuel 5:4; Zephaniah 1:9; construct דָּגוֺן מִפְתַּן 1 Samuel 5:5, ׳מ הַבַּיִת Ezekiel 9:3; 10:4, 18; 47:1, ׳מ הַשַּׁצר 46:2. |
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