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Lexicon :: Strong's H5488 - sûp̄

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סוּף
Transliteration
sûp̄
Pronunciation
soof
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of Egyptian origin
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TWOT Reference: 1479

Strong’s Definitions

סוּף çûwph, soof; probably of Egyptian origin; a reed, especially the papyrus:—flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's H5488 in the following manner: Red (24x), flags (3x), weeds (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's H5488 in the following manner: Red (24x), flags (3x), weeds (1x).

  1. reed, rush, water plant

    1. rushes

    2. sea of rushes

      1. of Red Sea

      2. of arms of Red Sea

      3. of Gulf of Suez

      4. of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סוּף çûwph, soof; probably of Egyptian origin; a reed, especially the papyrus:—flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489.
STRONGS H5488: Abbreviations
† I. סוּף noun masculineJon 2:6 reeds, rushes (collective) (probably loan-word from Egyptian ṭwfi, reeds, SteindBAS i. 603 ErmanZMG xivi (1892), 122; Semitic according to WMMAs. u.Eur.101); —
1. rushes, in Nile Exodus 2:3, 5 (E); קָנֶה וָסוּף Isaiah 19:6 (of Egypt).
2. usually in combination יַםסֿוּף probably = sea of rushes or reeds (> sea of (city) Suph), which Greek included in wider name θάλασσα Ἐρυθρἀ, Red Sea (compare DiExodus 13:18 and especially WMMAs. u. Eur. 42 f., who explains as name originally given to upper end of Gulf of Suez, extending into Bitter Lakes, shallow and marshy, whence reeds (probably also reddish colour)); **compare also CheEB RED SEA. — name applied only to arms of Red Sea; most often
a. to Gulf of Suez Exodus 10:19; Joshua 2:10 (both J), Exodus 13:18; Exodus 15:4, 22; Exodus 23:31 (all E), Deuteronomy 11:4; Joshua 4:23 (D), Numbers 33:10, 11 (P), elsewhere late Nehemiah 9:9; Psalm 106:7; Psalm 106:9; Psalm 106:22; Psalm 136:13; Psalm 136:15.
b. sometimes to Gulf of Akaba 1 Kings 9:26, and דֶּרֶךְ יַםסֿוּף Numbers 21:4 (E), probably also Numbers 14:25 (E), Deuteronomy 1:40; Deuteronomy 2:1; perhaps Judges 11:16; Jeremiah 49:21; possibly read מִיַּםסֿוּף for מוֺל ס׳ Deuteronomy 1:1 (see below).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

2:3; 2:5; 10:19; 13:18; 13:18; 15:4; 15:22; 23:31

Numbers

14:25; 21:4; 33:10; 33:11

Deuteronomy

1:1; 1:40; 2:1; 11:4

Joshua

2:10; 4:23

Judges

11:16

1 Kings

9:26

Nehemiah

9:9

Psalms

106:7; 106:9; 106:22; 136:13; 136:15

Isaiah

19:6

Jeremiah

49:21

Jonah

2:6

H5488

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Strong's Number H5488 matches the Hebrew סוּף (sûp̄),
which occurs 28 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[fn] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the LORD turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,[fn] for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - “‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9 - “And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry,
and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22 - wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13 - to him who divided the Red Sea in two,
for his steadfast love endures forever;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 - but overthrew[fn] Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea,
for his steadfast love endures forever;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:21 - At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
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