Strong’s definition
to wait at the threshold
KJV gloss list in the source
be a doorkeeper.
Source pronunciation notation: saw-faf'
Derivation recorded by Strong
a primitive root; properly, to snatch away, i.e. terminate; but used only as denominative from H5592 (סַף) (in the sense of a vestibule),
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