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Lexicon :: Strong's H5488 - sûp̄

Aa
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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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 she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - But God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - Then from the Red Sea they went on and put up their tents in the waste land of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.

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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 BoxJos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9 - And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22 - Works of wonder in the land of Ham, and things of fear by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13 - To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 - By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:21 - The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
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