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Strong's #5605: caphaph (pronounced saw-faf')

a primitive root; properly, to snatch away, i.e. terminate; but used only as denominative from 5592 (in the sense of a vestibule), to wait at the threshold:--be a doorkeeper.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâphaph

1) (Hithpoel) to stand at or guard the threshold

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

Psalms 84:10: "is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell"









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