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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: bowl, basin
= receptacle of undetermined size; ◄ made out of metal; ► used both for household and religious purposes
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005111-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 7 (7 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: doorstep, threshold
= strip of wood or stone at the bottom of a doorway; ≈ often used metonymically to refer to the entire doorway
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005111-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 23 (23 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: house
literally: threshold and doorpost, here used metaphorically to refer to the entire construction: = building
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005111-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: Saph
= man, also known as Sippai ; ◄ descendant of Raphah
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005111-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON No exact site Strong's mapping is available for this lemma. Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
Related words and biblical concepts Reviewed concept, LXX, and theological relationships are not included in this MVP. No candidate relationship is presented as established fact.
Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-005111Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
