II. סַף noun masculine[Amos 9:1] threshold, sill (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician see Lzb1. סַף; Aramaic סִפָּא, Arabic sippu Dl509, all id.); — absolute ׳ס [2Kgs 12:10] +, also הַסָּ֑ף [Judg 19:27] + 3 t. (Baer Ginsb), הַסָּ֑ף [2Kgs 25:8] suffix סִפִּי [Ezek 43:8], סִפָּם v[Ezek 43:8] plural סִפִּים [Amos 9:1]; [Isa 6:4] + 6 t. Ezra, Chronicles; — threshold, sill [Judg 19:27]; [Amos 9:1]; [Isa 6:4]; [Ezek 41:16] (twice in verse); [Ezek 43:8] (twice in verse); [2Chr 3:7], הַבַּיִת ׳ס [1Kgs 14:17], הַשַּׁעַר ׳ס [Ezek 40:6]; [Ezek 40:7], compare v[Ezek 40:6] b שֹׁמֵרֹ הַסַּף = door-keeper, an important temple official, [Jer 35:4], so ׳שֹׁמְרֵי הַסּ [2Kgs 12:10] (priests), [2Kgs 22:4] = [2Chr 34:9] (Levites!), [2Kgs 23:4]; [2Kgs 25:18] = [Jer 52:24] in Persia, of palace [Esth 2:21]; [Esth 6:2] of tabernacle הַסִּפִּים ׳שׁ [1Chr 9:19] שֹׁעֲרֵי ׳הַסּ [2Chr 23:4] (Levites), ׳שֹׁעֲרִים בַּסּ [1Chr 9:22] collective חֹרֶב בַּסָּ֑ף [Zeph 2:14] desolation in the thresholds.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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