Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4670
מִפְתָּן
miphtanmif-tawn'
threshold
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: miphtân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4670is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4670
a stretcher, i.e. a sill
The King James renders it: threshold.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
miphtan is rendered "threshold". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 5:4But 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.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
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 5:4הַמִּפְתָּ֔ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eight uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- threshold of6
- the threshold2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִפְקָד | miphqad | Muster (Gate) | Uses5 |
| מִפְלֶצֶת | miphletseth | horror | Uses4 |
| מִפְעָל | miphal | work | Uses3 |
| מִפְרָשׂ | miphras | spreading | Uses2 |
| מִפְלָט | miphlat | escape | Uses1 |
| מִפְרָץ | miphrats | landing | Uses1 |
| מִפְגָּע | miphga | target | Uses1 |
| מִפְלָשׂ | miphlas | swaying | Uses1 |
| מִפְתָּח | miphtach | opening | Uses1 |
| מִפְלָאָה | miphlaah | wonder | Uses1 |
| מִפְרֶקֶת | miphreqeth | neck | Uses1 |
| מִפְלַגָּה | miphlaggah | division | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מִפְתַּ֣ן3
- מִפְתַּ֥ן2
- הַמִּפְתָּ֔ן1
- הַמִּפְתָּ֖ן1
- מִפְתַּ֤ן1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
two uses
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.
- הַמִּפְתָּ֔ןhamiftanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the threshold
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.
- מִפְתַּ֥ןmiftannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: threshold of
Ezekiel
five uses
Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.
- מִפְתַּ֣ןmiftannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: threshold of
Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
- מִפְתַּ֣ןmiftannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: threshold of
Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.
- מִפְתַּ֣ןmiftannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: threshold of
The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening.
- מִפְתַּ֥ןmiftannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: threshold of
Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
- מִפְתַּ֤ןmiftannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: threshold of
Zephaniah
one use
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
- הַמִּפְתָּ֖ןhamiftanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the threshold
The letters
Gematria 570· 1,220 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.