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Lexicon :: Strong's H5483 - sûs

Aa
סוּס
Transliteration
sûs
Pronunciation
soos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy)
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TWOT Reference: 1476,1477

Strong’s Definitions

סוּס çûwç, soos; or סֻס çuç; from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight):—crane, horse (-back, -hoof). Compare H6571.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 140x

The KJV translates Strong's H5483 in the following manner: horse (133x), crane (2x), horseback (2x), horseback (with H7392) (2x), horsehoofs (with H6119) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 140x
The KJV translates Strong's H5483 in the following manner: horse (133x), crane (2x), horseback (2x), horseback (with H7392) (2x), horsehoofs (with H6119) (1x).

  1. swallow, swift

  2. horse

    1. chariot horses

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סוּס çûwç, soos; or סֻס çuç; from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight):—crane, horse (-back, -hoof). Compare H6571.
STRONGS H5483: Abbreviations
† I. סוּס noun [masculine] swallow or swift (cypselus, TristrFFP 82 ff.) (Targum סוּסָיָא Isaiah 38:14); — as twittering Isaiah 38:14 (in simile); Greek Version of the LXX χελιδών, Vulgate pullus hirundinis; so Jeremiah 8:7 Kt (Qr סִיס wrongly; perhaps to distinguish from following, so Gie), Greek Version of the LXX id., Vulgate hirundo.

II. סוּס 138 noun masculineExodus 15:1 horse (Late Hebrew סוּס, סוּסָה Aramaic סוּסְיָא bdb069207 Mandean סוסיא, Sinaitic id., Lzb328; Assyrian sisû (sisû ?) DlHWB 506; Tel Amarna su-u[su] WklTA.191, 24; probably foreign word compare NöM 147 ErmanÄgypten 649; English tr. 490); — ס׳ absolute 1 Kings 20:20 +; construct Exodus 15:19 +; plural סוּסִים Genesis 47:17 +, סֻסִים 2 Samuel 15:1; construct סוּסֵי 2 Kings 2:11; suffix סוּסַי 1 Kings 22:4; 2 Kings 3:7. סוּסֶיךָ Micah 5:9 + 4 times, סוּסָיו Isaiah 5:28 +, סוּסֵיכֶס Amos 4:10, סוּסֵיהֶם Joshua 11:6+; — horse:
1. non-Israel; chariot-horses of Canaanites Judges 5:22 (compare Judges 5:28; Judges 4:3, 13; עִקְבֵי ס׳; ס׳ collective, as often), Joshua 11:4, 6, 9 (JE); horses as property of Egyptians Genesis 47:17; Exodus 9:3 (both J), compare Zechariah 14:15; merchandise of Tyre Ezekiel 27:14; chariot-horses of Egypt [compare Hom11.ix.384], Exodus 14:9, 23 (Psalms), Exodus 15:1, 21 (poem), Exodus 15:19 (Psalms; on all see Di), Deuteronomy 11:4; Isaiah 31:1, 3; Jeremiah 46:4, 9; Ezekiel 17:15; of Aram 1 Kings 20:1 + 11 times Kings (1 Kings 20:20 ridden, for flight), Assyrians Isaiah 5:28 + 3 times, Chaldeans Jeremiah 4:13 + 6 times; other nations Nahum 3:2; Jeremiah 50:42 + 5 times; as ridden 1 Kings 20:20 (see above), Jeremiah 8:23; Ezekiel 38:4, 15 + 13 times (late).
2. in Israel; chariot-horses of Absalom 2 Samuel 15:1, especially of Solomon, and later, 1 Kings 5:6; 1 Kings 5:8; 1 Kings 10:25, 28, 29, and || Chronicles; 1 Kings 18:5 and.(as war-equipment) 1 Kings 22:4; 2 Kings 3:7; 2 Kings 9:33; 2 Kings 10:2; Proverbs 21:31; סוּסֵי אֵשׁ 2 Kings 2:11 (Elijah), compare 2 Kings 6:17; consecration to sun 2 Kings 23:11 (compare RSSemitic 275; 2nd ed. 293); sign of luxury and apostasy Amos 4:10; Hosea 1:7; Hosea 14:4; Isaiah 2:7; Micah 5:9; Zechariah 9:10, compare Deuteronomy 17:6, 16, but see Zechariah 14:20; in vision Zechariah 6:2 (twice in verse); Zechariah 6:3 (twice in verse); Zechariah 6:6; ridden 2 Kings 9:18, 19; 2 Kings 18:23 = Isaiah 36:8; Amos 2:15 + 4 times Isaiah Jeremiah; in vision Zechariah 1:8 (twice in verse); שַׁעַר הַס׳ Jeremiah 31:40; Nehemiah 3:28, compare 2 Kings 11:16 2 Chronicles 23:15; belongings of returned exiles Ezra 2:56 = Nehemiah 7:68 van d. H. (omitted by Masora Baer Ginsb which see); description of horse Job 39:19; in various simile and figurative Amos 6:12; Jeremiah 5:8; Jeremiah 8:6; Jeremiah 12:5; Ezekiel 23:20; Isaiah 63:13; Joel 2:4; Proverbs 27:3; Psalm 32:9; Psalm 147:10.
3. chariot-horses of י׳ Habakkuk 3:15 (figurative of clouds), compare Zechariah 10:3. — compare also חֲצַר סוּסִים, and פָּרָשׁ, רֶכֶשׁ.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

47:17; 47:17

Exodus

9:3; 14:9; 14:23; 15:1; 15:1; 15:19; 15:19; 15:21

Deuteronomy

11:4; 17:6; 17:16

Joshua

11:4; 11:6; 11:6; 11:9

Judges

4:3; 4:13; 5:22; 5:28

2 Samuel

15:1; 15:1

1 Kings

5:6; 5:8; 10:25; 10:28; 10:29; 18:5; 20:1; 20:20; 20:20; 20:20; 22:4; 22:4

2 Kings

2:11; 2:11; 3:7; 3:7; 6:17; 9:18; 9:19; 9:33; 10:2; 11:16; 18:23; 23:11

2 Chronicles

23:15

Ezra

2:56

Nehemiah

3:28; 7:68

Job

39:19

Psalms

32:9; 147:10

Proverbs

21:31; 27:3

Isaiah

2:7; 5:28; 5:28; 31:1; 31:3; 36:8; 38:14; 38:14; 63:13

Jeremiah

4:13; 5:8; 8:6; 8:7; 12:5; 31:40; 46:4; 46:9; 50:42

Ezekiel

17:15; 23:20; 27:14; 38:4; 38:15

Hosea

1:7; 14:4

Joel

2:4

Amos

2:15; 4:10; 4:10; 6:12

Micah

5:9; 5:9

Nahum

3:2

Habakkuk

3:15

Zechariah

1:8; 6:2; 6:3; 6:6; 9:10; 10:3; 14:15; 14:20

H5483

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5483 matches the Hebrew סוּס (sûs),
which occurs 141 times in 130 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 47:17–2Ch 9:25)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17 - So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:17 - May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3 - Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9 - But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - Then the Egyptians went after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses and his war-carriages and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1 - Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21 - And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their war-carriages; how he made the waters of the Red Sea come up over them when they went after you, and how the Lord put an end to them even to this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:9 - And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22 - Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:1 - Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26 - And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:28 - And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:25 - And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:28 - And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:29 - A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:1 - Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got all his army together, and thirty-two kings with him, and horses and carriages of war; he went up and made war on Samaria, shutting it in.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:20 - And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21 - And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:25 - And get together another army like the one which came to destruction, horse for horse, and carriage for carriage; and let us make war on them in the lowlands, and certainly we will be stronger than they. And he gave ear to what they said, and did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:4 - And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:11 - And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7 - And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:9 - So Naaman, with all his horses and his carriages, came to the door of Elisha's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14 - So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7 - So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came in, and, crying out to the door-keepers of the town, they gave them the news, saying, We came to the tents of the Aramaeans, and there was no one there and no voice of man, only the horses and the asses in their places, and the tents as they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - And one of his servants said in answer, Send men and let them take five of the horses which we still have in the town; if they keep their lives they will be the same as those of Israel who are still living here; if they come to their death they will be the same as all those of Israel who have gone to destruction: let us send and see.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:14 - So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - So a horseman went out to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? come after me. And the watchman gave them word, saying, The horseman went up to them, but has not come back.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:19 - Then he sent out a second horseman, who came up to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said in answer, What have you to do with peace? come after me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:33 - And he said, Take her and put her out of the window. So they sent her down with force, and her blood went in a shower on the wall and on the horses; and she was crushed under their feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:16 - So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the horses, and there she was put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23 - And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:16 - And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:17 - A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:24 - And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses and beasts for transport, regularly year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25 - Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

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