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סַף H5592

H5592 is the Hebrew word סַף, transliterated çaph and said saf. The King James Version most often renders it door.

Word: סַףTransliteration: çaphSaid: safLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 25 verses

What it means

a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine).

Where it comes from

from H5605 (סָפַף), in its original sense of containing.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 29 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

door 8×threshold 5×bason 2×basons 2×bowls 2×gates 2×posts 2×doors 2×thresholds 2×door posts 1×cup 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: bason, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold.

Verses using סַף

All 25 verses, quoted in full.

Exodus 12:22 · KJV

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

2 Samuel 17:28 · KJV

Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

1 Kings 7:50 · KJV

And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

1 Kings 14:17 · KJV

And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

2 Kings 12:9 · KJV

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 12:13 · KJV

Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

2 Kings 22:4 · KJV

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

2 Kings 23:4 · KJV

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

2 Kings 25:18 · KJV

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

1 Chronicles 9:19 · KJV

And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.

1 Chronicles 9:22 · KJV

All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

2 Chronicles 3:7 · KJV

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

2 Chronicles 23:4 · KJV

This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;

2 Chronicles 34:9 · KJV

And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

Esther 2:21 · KJV

In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

Esther 6:2 · KJV

And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

Isaiah 6:4 · KJV

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

Jeremiah 52:19 · KJV

And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.

Ezekiel 40:6 · KJV

Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

Ezekiel 40:7 · KJV

And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

Ezekiel 41:16 · KJV

The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

Ezekiel 43:8 · KJV

In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

Amos 9:1 · KJV

I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

Zephaniah 2:14 · KJV

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

Zechariah 12:2 · KJV

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

Common questions

What does Strong's H5592 mean?

H5592 is the Hebrew word סַף (çaph), meaning a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine).

How is H5592 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it door (8 times), threshold (5 times), bason (2 times), basons (2 times), bowls (2 times), among others.

How many times does H5592 appear in the Bible?

סַף (çaph) is tagged in 25 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H5592 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H5605 (סָפַף), in its original sense of containing.

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