H5492 - סוּפָה (çûwphâh)

H5492 סוּפָה (çûwphâh) soo-faw'

Hebrew

Biblical Persons & Places

Suphah Suphah

A location only mentioned at Num.21.14; only referred to as Suphah (סוּפָה).

Strong's Definition

a hurricane

Derivation: from H5486 (סוּף);

KJV Usage: Red Sea, storm, tempest, whirlwind, Red sea.

TWOT Reference: 1478b

Outline of Biblical Usage

n f

1) storm-wind

Suphah = "honeycomb: overflow"

n pr loc

2) a place east of the Jordan

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1105 G2692 G2978 G3601 G3709

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סוּפָה sûphâh BDB Definition: Suphah = honeycomb: overflow 1) storm-wind (noun feminine) 2) a place east of the Jordan (noun proper locative) Part of Speech: see above in Definition A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5486 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1478b Total KJV Occurrences: 18

Bible Occurrences (16)

21:14

21:18 27:20 37:9

83:15

1:27 10:25

5:28 17:13 21:1 29:6 66:15

4:13

8:7

1:14

1:3

Numbers 21:14

Therefore... it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,

Job 21:18

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Job 37:9

The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

Proverbs 1:27

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you....

Proverbs 10:25

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.

Isaiah 5:28

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint;... their chariot wheels [are] like a whirlwind.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.