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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 Box Exo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in the sedge on the bank of the river.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And Jehovah turned a very powerful west wind, which took away the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea: there remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - And God led the people about, the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went arrayed out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - Pharaoh's chariots and his army hath he cast into the sea; His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and 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 thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to go round the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient on the way;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - But ye, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - And we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Jehovah had said unto me; and we went round mount Seir many days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and unto their chariots, over which he made the water of the Red sea flow as they pursued after you, and Jehovah destroyed them unto this day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard that Jehovah dried up the waters of the Red sea before you when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - because Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye had passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had passed over;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto 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, then Israel walked through the wilderness as far as the Red sea, and came to Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - And king Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-Geber, which is beside 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 thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22 - Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13 - To him that divided the Red sea into parts, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 - And overturned Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:21 - The earth quaketh at the sound of their fall; there is a cry, the sound whereof is heard in the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.
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