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לַפִּיד lappid
Hebrew word for “torch” · Strong’s H3940 · used 13 times in 12 verses
Meaning
torch
How it is translated
Glosses given for lappid in context, with how often each is used:
- torches 6
- torch 2
- like a torch 2
- like torches 2
- lightning 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judges | 5 | 0.5 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Daniel | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Nahum | 1 | 1.8 | |
| Zechariah | 1 | 0.3 |
Chapters where it is used most
Judges 7 (2), Judges 15 (2), Genesis 15 (1), Exodus 20 (1), Job 41 (1), Isaiah 62 (1), Ezekiel 1 (1), Daniel 10 (1), Nahum 2 (1), Zechariah 12 (1)
Forms
- ולפיד 1
- הלפידם 1
- ולפדים 1
- בלפדים 1
- לפדים 1
- לפיד 1
- בלפידים 1
- לפידים 1
- כלפיד 1
- הלפדים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with lappid more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 6
- בָּרָק baraq “lightning” 3
- שֹׁפָר shophar “trumpet” 3
- מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 3
- בָּעַר baar “to burn” 3
- כַּד kad “jar” 2
- נֹגַהּ nogah “brightness” 2
- בַּיִן bayin “between” 3
- שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 3
- שְׂמֹאל semol “left” 2
- יָמִין yamin “right” 2
- הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 3
Key verses
The verses using lappid that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 15:17 — And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
- Exodus 20:18 — And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed,…
- Judges 7:16 — And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
- Judges 7:20 — And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow and…
- Judges 15:4 — And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
- Judges 15:5 — And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn,…
- Job 41:19 — Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
- Isaiah 62:1 — For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation…
- Ezekiel 1:13 — As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the…
- Daniel 10:6 — His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to…
- Nahum 2:4 — The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the…
- Zechariah 12:6 — In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people…
See all 12 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.