סַף
çaph · saf
a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5605 (סָפַף), in its original sense of containing;
a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine)
- a vestibule (as a limit)
- also, a dish (for holding blood or wine)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bason, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to support and uphold › to speak, the word
To support and uphold that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סַף 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
32 occurrences · 32 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the door7 · 22%
- the door3 · 9%
- that is in the bason2 · 6%
- were upon the threshold1 · 3%
- and basons1 · 3%
- and the bowls1 · 3%
- to the threshold1 · 3%
- bowls1 · 3%
- of the gates1 · 3%
- in the gates1 · 3%
- the posts1 · 3%
- of the doors1 · 3%
- the doors1 · 3%
- and the basons1 · 3%
- the threshold1 · 3%
- threshold1 · 3%
- and the threshold1 · 3%
- the door posts1 · 3%
- of their threshold1 · 3%
- by my thresholds1 · 3%
- that the posts1 · 3%
- shall be in the thresholds1 · 3%
- a cup1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.