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HebrewH4670Noun (Masculine)

מִפְתָּן

miph.tan

8Occurrences
H4670Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a stretcher, i.e. a sill

from the same as H6620 (פֶּתֶן);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
threshold

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

מִפְתָּן appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezk
5
1 Samuel
2
Zephaniah
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 5:4BSB

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.

1 Samuel 5:5BSB

That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.

Ezk 10:4BSB

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Ezk 10:18BSB

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Ezk 46:2BSB

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Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.