Definition

to wait at the threshold

Etymology

a primitive root; properly, to snatch away, i.e. terminate; but used only as denominative from H5592 (סַף) (in the sense of a vestibule),

Word family

• סַף çaph

How the KJV renders it

• be a doorkeeper

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.