סוּף
çûwph · H5488 · Hebrew · 28 occurrences
Place
- Red Seafirst named in Exodus 10:1926 verses
Thing
Meanings
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Cattails or bulrushes, meaning unsure; probably a reed-like water plant up to 3 meters high, used for baskets and mats, with a fluffy seed head and edible roots
ExamplesExodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
Exodus 2:5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her female attendants walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave woman, and she brought it to her.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָבַשׁto bind up, to saddle 1
- קָמַלto wilt 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
25 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָםsea 24
- תָּוֶךְmiddle 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐρυθρός erythrós · G2063 · red
- Greek ἐρυθρός specifically denotes the color red and appears in the idiomatic phrase ἡ ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα ('the Red Sea'), while Hebrew סוּף primarily denotes reeds/water plants and appears in the idiom יַם־סוּף ('Sea of Reeds/Red Sea'); the two are cross-linguistic equivalents only within the fixed geographical designation for the body of water, not in their core lexical meanings (color vs. vegetation).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Plants001002007001
- The word names reeds or rushes, the water plants among which the infant Moses is hidden in his basket (Exodus 2:3, 2:5), tying the word to this reedy vegetation.
- Names of Locations003001010
- The word is also used in the compound name for the Red Sea, into which the LORD drives the locusts and drowns Pharaoh's army (Exodus 10:19, 13:18, 15:4), tying the word to this specific body of water.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5488. suph I. סוּף noun masculineJon 2:6 reeds, rushes (collective) (probably loan-word…
I. סוּף noun masculineJon 2:6 reeds, rushes (collective) (probably loan-word from Egyptian ‰wfi, reeds, SteindBAS i. 603 ErmanZMG xivi (1892), 122; Semitic according to WMMAs. u.Eur.101); —
1 rushes, in Nile Exo 2:3, Exo 2:5 (E); וָסוּף קָנֶה Isa 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 DiExo 13:18 and especially WMMAs.u.Eur.42f., 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 Exo 10:19; Jos 2:10 (both J), Exo 13:18; Exo 15:4, Exo 15:22; Exo 23:31 (all E), Deu 11:4; Jos 4:23 (D), Num 33:10-11, (P), elsewhere late Neh 9:9; Psa 106:7; Psa 106:9; Psa 106:22; Psa 136:13; Psa 136:15.
b. sometimes to Gulf of Akaba 1Ki 9:26, and יַםסֿוּף דֶּרֶךְ Num 21:4 (E), probably also Num 14:25 (E), Deu 1:40; Deu 2:1; perhaps Jdg 11:16; Jer 49:21; possibly read מִיַּםסֿוּף for ס ׳מוֺל Deu 1:1 (see infor.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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