Resheph רֶ֫שֶׁף
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| רֶ֫שֶׁף | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | resheph |
| Strong's number | H7565 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | flash |
| Occurrences | 7 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | Psalms (2) |
Resheph (Hebrew רֶ֫שֶׁף, Strong's H7565) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “flash”. It occurs 7 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) flame, firebolt, spark
1a) flame
1b) fire-bolt
1a) flame
1b) fire-bolt
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | coals (3), heat (1), arrows (1), thunderbolts (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | pestilence (1), flaming arrows (1), bolts of lightning (1), its sparks (1), flames (1), fever (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Resheph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Job
- Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Psalms
- Psalm 76:3There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
- Psalm 78:48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
Song of Solomon
- Song of Solomon 8:6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
Habakkuk
- Habakkuk 3:5Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).