STRONGS NUMBER H4670


Word Summary
miphtan: threshold
Original Word: מִפְתָּן
Transliteration: miphtan
Phonetic Spelling: (mif-tawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: threshold
Meaning: a stretcher, a sill
Strong's Concordance
threshold

From the same as pethen; a stretcher, i.e. A sill -- threshold.

see HEBREW pethen

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4670. miphtan

מִפְתָּןnoun [masculine] threshold (compare Late Hebrew מָּתִיןcross-beam; ? Arabic carpenter;); — absolute ׳מ1 Samuel 5:4; Zephaniah 1:9; construct דָּגוֺן מִפְתַּן1 Samuel 5:5, ׳מ הַבַּיִתEzekiel 9:3; 10:4, 18; 47:1, ׳מ הַשַּׁצר46:2.