Strong’s H4670 · Hebrew

מִפְתָּן
miphtân
mif-tawn'

Definition

a stretcher, i.e. a sill

Etymology

from the same as H6620 (פֶּתֶן);

Where the KJV renders it

  • 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

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