miph.tan denotes the fixed entrance threshold of a house or gate, a point stood on, crossed, or passed beneath.

The term consistently identifies an architectural entrance point associated with a house or gate: a place before which Dagon falls, which people avoid or leap upon, where a leader bows, and beneath which water flows. Its construct forms commonly specify the associated house or gate, while the absolute forms still occur in clauses concerning movement on or toward that entrance feature.

1. Architectural entrance point · dominant

   The construct forms locate this feature in relation to a house or gate: in Ezekiel 10:4 the APB renders the glory moving “to the threshold of the house,” and in Ezekiel 46:2 the leader bows “at the threshold of the gate.” In Ezekiel 47:1, water comes out from under the house's threshold; the absolute forms in 1 Samuel 5:4 and Zephaniah 1:9 occur where something falls toward or people leap upon that same entrance feature.

   Ezekiel 10:4Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 47:11 Samuel 5:41 Samuel 5:5Zephaniah 1:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB consistently uses “threshold” in house and gate scenes, including movement to it, action upon it, and water from beneath it. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses' setting without establishing finer distinctions.