Lexical 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. |