saph denotes the threshold or entrance boundary of a house, gate, or sanctuary, including the place kept by gatekeepers.

The noun denotes the physical threshold or entrance boundary associated with houses, gates, and sacred buildings. It occurs in descriptions of crossing or touching a house entrance, architectural measurement and decoration, shaking thresholds, and personnel identified as keeping that location.

1. Threshold at a house, gate, or sanctuary · dominant

   The noun names a built entrance element: in Ezekiel 40:6 the APB renders the measured gate feature “the threshold of the gate,” while Ezekiel 43:8 places “their threshold” beside “my threshold.” It also marks the house entrance crossed in 1 Kings 14:17 and the location of the woman's hands in Judges 19:27; in 1 Chronicles 9:19, gatekeeping work is described as keeping the threshold of the tent.

   Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 43:81 Kings 14:17Judges 19:271 Chronicles 9:19Isaiah 6:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun as “threshold” or “thresholds,” especially in architectural and entrance clauses. In passages about personnel, it instead speaks of those who “kept the threshold,” “guarded the threshold,” or of “doorkeepers”; These are contextual presentations rather than fixed translations.