Basin
סַףStrong’s H5592saph
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saph is the Hebrew word usually translated “threshold”, “thresholds” and “basin”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- A spreading out, basin, goblet, bowlbasin, goblet
- Threshold, sillthreshold, sill, door-keeper
How it's translated
- the threshold 11
- the thresholds 6
- in the basin 2
- and basins 1
- and the basins 1
- at threshold of 1
- basins of 1
- at the thresholds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 5
- Ezekiel 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Jeremiah 3
- 1 Kings 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
- Judges 19:27And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
- 2 Samuel 17:28Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
- 1 Kings 7:50And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
- 1 Kings 14:17And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
- 2 Kings 12:9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
סַף saph · basin
1) a spreading out, basin, goblet, bowl 1a) basin, goblet
סַף saph · threshold
1) threshold, sill 1a) threshold, sill, door-keeper
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “basin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BA'SIN, noun
basn.
- A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
- In hydraulics, any reservoir of water.
- That which resembles a basin in containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a hollow place for liquids, or an inclosed part of water, forming a broad space within a strait or narrow entrance; a little bay.
- Among glass grinders, a concave piece of metal by which convex glasses are formed.
All definitions
- Among hatters, a large shell or case, usually of iron, placed over a furnace, in which the hat is molded into due shape.
- In anatomy, a round cavity between the anterior ventricles of the brain.
- The scale of a balance, when hollow and round.
- In Jewish antiquities, the laver of the tabernacle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.