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threshold |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Threshold \Thresh"old\, n. [OE. threswold, [thorn]reshwold, AS [thorn]rescwald, [thorn]erscwald, [thorn]erscold, [thorn]rescold, fr [thorn]rescan, [thorn]erscan, to thresh; akin to Icel. [thorn]reskj["o]de, [thorn]r["o]skuldr, Sw tr["o]skel, Dan. t[ae]rskel. See {Thrash}.] 1. The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like the doorsill; hence entrance; gate; door. 2. Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as the threshold of life. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: threshold n 1: the starting point of a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood" 2: the smallest detectable sensation [syn: {limen}] 3: the space in a wall through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close "he stuck his head in the doorway" [syn: {doorway}, {door}, {room access}] 4: a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway [syn: {doorsill}, {doorstep}] 5: a region marking a boundary [syn: {brink}, {verge}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Threshold (1.) Heb. miphtan probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4,5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4,18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered door" and "door-post." (2.) 'Asuppim, pl (Neh. 12:25), rendered correctly storehouses" in the Revised Version. In 1 Chr. 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as a proper name while in the Revised Version it is translated "storehouses."
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