Definition

a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine)

Etymology

from H5605 (סָפַף), in its original sense of containing;

Where the KJV renders it

• bason
• bowl
• cup
• door (post)
• gate
• post
• threshold

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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.