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Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #7566 - רֶשֶׁף

Transliteration

Resheph

Phonetics

reh'-shef

Root Word (Etymology)

the same as (H7565)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Resheph = “flame”

1) a son of Ephraim

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

1 Chronicles 1

NAS (1)

1 Chronicles 1

HCS (1)

1 Chronicles 1

BSB (1)

1 Chronicles 1

ESV (1)

1 Chronicles 1

WEB (1)

1 Chronicles 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. רֶ֫שֶׁף proper name, masculine in Ephraim, 1 Chronicles 7:25; Σαραφ, A Ρασεφᵐ5^L Ρασηφ.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

רֶשֶׁף m.

(1) a flame, Song of Solomon 8:6 comp. Chald., Psalms 78:48. Targum.

(2) lightning, Psalms 78:48. Hence poet., 76:4, רִשְׁפֵי קֶשֶׁת “lightnings of the bow,” i.e. arrows, and Job 5:7, בְּנֵי רֶשֶׁף “sons of lightning,” i.e. ravenous birds flying with the rapidity of lightning, Job 5:7.

(3) a burning fever, a plague, by which the body is inflamed (compare חֵמָה heat and poison). Deuteronomy 32:24: לְחֻמֵי רֶשֶׁף “consumed with pestilence,” Habakkuk 3:5 (where there is in the other hemistich דֶּבֶר plague).

(4) [Resheph], pr.n. 1 Chronicles 7:25.

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List of Word Forms

וְרֶ֧שֶׁף ורשף veReshef wə·re·šep̄ wərešep̄