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סוּפָה suphah
Hebrew word for “whirlwind” · Strong’s H5492 · used 16 times in 16 verses
Meaning
storm-wind
Senses in the lexicon
- whirlwind (15)
- Suphah (1)
How it is translated
Glosses given for suphah in context, with how often each is used:
- storm-wind 10
- like a storm-wind 1
- like storm-wind 1
- like storm-winds 1
- will be like the storm-wind 1
- like the storm-wind 1
- suphah 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Proverbs | 2 | 0.3 | |
| Numbers | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Nahum | 1 | 1.8 |
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 21 (1), Job 21 (1), Job 27 (1), Job 37 (1), Psalms 83 (1), Proverbs 1 (1), Proverbs 10 (1), Isaiah 5 (1), Isaiah 17 (1), Isaiah 21 (1)
Forms
- סופה 7
- כסופה 2
- וכסופה 2
- בסופה 2
- ובסופתך 1
- כסופות 1
- וסופתה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with suphah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- סְעָרָה searah “tempest” 3
- מוֹץ mots “chaff” 2
- לַהַב lahav “flame” 2
- גַּלְגַּל galgal “wheel” 2
- גָּנַב ganav “to steal” 2
- מֶרְכָּבָה merkavah “chariot” 2
- רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 3
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 3
- עָנָן anan “cloud” 2
- סוּס sus “horse” 2
- רָדַף radaph “to pursue” 2
- אַף aph “face” 2
Key verses
The verses using suphah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 21:18 — They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Job 27:20 — Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- Proverbs 1:27 — When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 10:25 — As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
- Isaiah 17:13 — The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the…
- Isaiah 21:1 — The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
- Isaiah 29:6 — Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
- Isaiah 66:15 — For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Jeremiah 4:13 — Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
- Hosea 8:7 — For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow…
- Amos 1:14 — But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the…
- Nahum 1:3 — The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust…
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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.