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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.
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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 BoxExo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with [fn]bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - And the daughter of Pharao came down to the river to bathe; and her maids walked by the river's side, and having seen the ark in the ooze, she sent her maid, and took it up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the Lord brought in the opposite direction a strong wind from the sea, and took up the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - And God led the people round by the way to the wilderness, to the Red Sea: and in the fifth generation the children of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - He has cast the chariots of Pharao and his host into the sea, the chosen mounted captains: they were swallowed up in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - So Moses brought up the children of Israel from the Red Sea, and brought them into the wilderness of Sur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - And having departed from mount Or by the way leading to the Red Sea, they compassed the land of Edom, and the people lost courage by the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - And they departed from Ælim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - And we turned and departed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed mount Seir many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did to the host of the Egyptians, and to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overwhelm the face of them as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroyed them until this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of the land of Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - when the Lord our God had dried up the water of Jordan from before them, until they had passed over; as the Lord our God did to the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up from before us, until we passed over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - And afterwards God brought out our fathers from Egypt, and ye entered into the Red Sea; and the Egyptians pursued after our fathers with chariots and horses into the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - for in their going up out of Egypt Israel went in the wilderness as far as the sea of Siph, and came to Cades.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Ælath on the [fn]shore of the [fn]extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9 - And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and thou heardest their cry at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - (LXX 105:7) Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, and remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; but provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - (LXX 105:9) And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22 - (LXX 105:22) wondrous works in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13 - (LXX 135:13) To him who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 - (LXX 135:15) and overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every [fn]reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:21 - (LXX 30:15) For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - (LXX 2:6) Water was poured around me to the soul: the [fn]lowest deep compassed me, my head went down
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