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# מִפְתָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4670

**threshold** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

threshold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4670/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִפְתָּן²: threshold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4670/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] threshold (cf. NH פָּתִין cross-beam;? Arabic فَيْتَنٌ carpenter);—abs. מ׳ 1 S 5:4; Zp 1:9; cstr. מִפְתַּן דָּגוֹן 1 S 5:5, מ׳ הַבַּיִת Ez 9:3; 10:4, 18; 47:1, מ׳ הַשַּׁעַר 46:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the threshold (6); threshold (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.18/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵא֙ כְּב֣וֹד יְהוָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל מִפְתַּ֣ן הַבָּ֑יִת וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֖ד עַל־הַכְּרוּבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.went.out the.glory of.Yahweh from at the.threshold of the.house and it.stood.still above the cherubim

*JPS 1917:* And the glory of the LORD went forth from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

[1 Samuel 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.5/#tree)

עַל־כֵּ֡ן לֹֽא־יִדְרְכוּ֩ כֹהֲנֵ֨י דָג֜וֹן וְכָֽל־הַבָּאִ֧ים בֵּית־דָּג֛וֹן עַל־מִפְתַּ֥ן דָּג֖וֹן בְּאַשְׁדּ֑וֹד עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* therefore not they.tread the.priests of.Dagon and all \[those who\].go the.house of.Dagon on the.threshold of.Dagon in Ashdod until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4670.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4670/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).