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# סָפַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5605

**stand at** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

stand at [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5605/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

ספף²: vb. denom. Hithpôʿ stand at guard, the threshold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5605/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. Hithpôʿ. stand at, or guard, the threshold;—Inf. cstr. בָּחַ֫רְתִּי הִסְתּוֹפֵף בְּבֵית אֱלֹהַי ψ 84:11 I choose standing at the threshold in the house of my God.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (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: to stand at the threshold (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 84:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.11/#tree)

כִּ֤י טֽוֹב־י֥וֹם בַּחֲצֵרֶ֗יךָ מֵ֫אָ֥לֶף בָּחַ֗רְתִּי הִ֭סְתּוֹפֵף בְּבֵ֣ית אֱלֹהַ֑י מִ֝דּ֗וּר בְּאָהֳלֵי־רֶֽשַׁע׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].good a.day in courts your more than.a.thousand I.have.chosen to.stand.at.the.threshold in the.house my.God my more than.to.dwell in.\[the\] tents of.wickedness

*JPS 1917:* For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5605.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5605/): 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).