מִפְתָּן
miphtân · mif-tawn'
a stretcher, i.e. a sill
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H6620 (פֶּתֶן);
a stretcher, i.e. a sill
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: threshold.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to speak, the word › the mark, the covenant sign › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to speak, the word of the mark, the covenant sign of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִפְתָּן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- on the threshold2 · 25%
- upon the threshold1 · 13%
- whereupon he was, to the threshold1 · 13%
- and stood over the threshold1 · 13%
- from off the threshold1 · 13%
- at the threshold1 · 13%
- from under the threshold1 · 13%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.