saph denotes a vessel used among supplies or furnishings, including a container holding blood and a figurative basin of reeling.

The attested use chiefly denotes vessels listed among supplies or temple furnishings, while Exodus 12:22 places one as the container holding blood. Zechariah 12:2 uses the singular construct form in the image of Jerusalem as a basin of reeling.

1. Vessels among supplies and furnishings · dominant

   Plural forms occur in lists of objects: in 1 Kings 7:50 the APB renders “The basins” among gold furnishings, and in 2 Samuel 17:28 it renders “basins” among provisions brought to David. Jeremiah 52:19 likewise lists them among gold and silver objects taken by the chief of the guard; 2 Kings 12:14 has a plural construct form in the context of repairing the house of the LORD, though the APB does not isolate its contribution.

   1 Kings 7:502 Samuel 17:28Jeremiah 52:192 Kings 12:14
2. Container holding blood · occasional

   In Exodus 12:22, two masculine singular absolute forms occur in the instruction to dip hyssop in blood in the vessel and apply that blood to the lintel and doorposts. The APB renders the clause with “the basin.”

   Exodus 12:22
3. Figurative basin of reeling · occasional

   In Zechariah 12:2, the masculine singular construct form occurs in the declaration that Jerusalem will be set as a basin of reeling for surrounding peoples. The APB renders the image “a basin of reeling.”

   Zechariah 12:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB renders the term as “basins” in the object lists and as “the basin” in Exodus 12:22; it also renders Zechariah 12:2 as “a basin of reeling.” In 2 Kings 12:14, the translation does not visibly isolate the term.