miftan · threshold

What it means

miftan (מִפְתָּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “threshold”.

The stone or wooden piece on the floor of a doorway.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The stone or wood on the ground at the entrance of a door, the threshold.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Zephaniah×1

• 1 Samuel 5:4

  And they rose early in the morning the next day, and there was Dagon, fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of YHWH, and the head of Dagon and both palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold; only Dagon was left to him.

• 1 Samuel 5:5

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

• Ezekiel 9:3

  And the glory of the Elohim of Israel had gone up from upon the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the scribe's inkhorn at his waist.

• Ezekiel 10:4

  And the glory of YHWH rose from upon the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 10:18

  And the glory of YHWH went out from upon the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim.

• Ezekiel 46:2

  And the chief shall come in by way of the portico of the gate from outside and stand by the doorpost of the gate, and the priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings; and he shall bow down on the threshold of the gate, and go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

• Ezekiel 47:1

  And he brought me back to the entrance of the house, and look, water was coming out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced east; and the water was going down from under the right side of the house, south of the altar.

• Zephaniah 1:9

  And I will call to account all who leap over the threshold on that day, who fill the house of their masters with violence and deceit.