Topic
Threshold
10 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Ezekiel 9:3Easton · Smith
And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side;
- Ezekiel 10:4Easton · Smith
Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory.
- Ezekiel 10:18Easton · Smith
Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
- 1 Samuel 5:4Easton
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
- 1 Samuel 5:5Easton
Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
- 1 Chronicles 26:15Easton
To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
- 1 Chronicles 26:17Easton
Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
- Nehemiah 12:25Easton
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
- Ezekiel 46:2Easton
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go…
- Ezekiel 47:1Easton
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the…
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 10 references
(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4,5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4,18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered “door” and “door-post.”
(2.) ‘Asuppim, pl. (Neh. 12:25), rendered correctly “storehouses” in the Revised Version. In 1 Chr. 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as a proper name, while in the Revised Version it is translated “storehouses.”
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
thresh'-old.
See HOUSE, II, 1, (7).
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.