Word

סוּפָה

çûwphâh · H5492 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Suphahfirst named in Numbers 21:141 verse
Wahebfirst named in Numbers 21:141 verse

Meanings

storm

A process by which a strong wind blows, causing destruction and inspiring fear, often associated with the appearance and intervention of God and used as a symbol of warfare and hardship

Examples
Job 21:18 “Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?
Job 27:20 “Terrors overtake him like a flood; A storm steals him away in the night.
Job 37:9 “From the south comes the storm, And from the north wind the cold.
Suphah

Location

Examples
Numbers 21:14 For that reason it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Waheb in Suphah, And the wadis of the Arnon,

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ךָyour 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

גָּנַבto steal 2
עָבַרto pass 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָצַרto be short 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
מֶרְכָּבָהchariot 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 2 groups

כlike/as 7
בin/on/with 5

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יוֹםday, time 1
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 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.

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.

Near synonyms 1 word

סַעַר çaʻar · H5591 · storm: Both words denote violent windstorms, with storm, tempest and whirlwind overlapping clearly. The "Red Sea" sense of סוּפָה (çûwphâh, H5492) is a separate sense and does not affect the storm sense shared with סַעַר (çaʻar, H5591).

Semantic domains 2 entries

Air001002005001: The word names a storm or whirlwind, the tempest that sweeps away the wicked and drives ships to their destruction (Jonah 1:4, 1:12), tying the word to this violent atmospheric phenomenon.
Names of Locations003001010: The word is also used in the compound name for the Red Sea, an association distinct from its general storm sense sampled here.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סוּף çûwph · H5486 · to come to an end, to be destroyed, to cease · 7×סוּפָהçûwphâh · H5492סוֹף çôwph · H5490 · end, rear, last · 5×סוֹף çôwph · H5491 · end · 5×סוּף çûwph · H5487 · consume, fulfill · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5492. cuwphah I. סוּפָה noun feminine storm-wind (that makes an end ?); — absolute ׳ס…

H5492. cuwphah
I. סוּפָה noun feminine storm-wind (that makes an end ?); — absolute ׳ס Isa 5:28 +; סוּמָּ֫תָה Hos 8:7 (Ges§ 90f.); suffix סוּפָֽתְךָ Psa 83:16; plural סוּפוֺת Isa 21:1; — strom-wind, ס בְּיוֺם ׳כְּסַעַר Amo 1:14; Nah 1:3 (|| שְׂעָרָה), Isa 17:13 (|| רוּחַ), Job 37:9; Isa 21:1, as driving chaff Job 21:18 (verb גָּנַב; in simile), simile of rushing chariots Isa 5:28; Isa 66:15; Jer 4:13, of ruin Pro 1:27; compare Pro 10:25; symbolic of ׳יs judgments, וְס יִזְרָ֖עוּ ׳רוּחַ יִקְצֹ֑רוּ Hos 8:7; Psa 83:16 (|| סַעַר), Job 27:20 (verb גָּנַב), Isa 29:6 ( + מְעָרָה).
II. סוּפָה proper name, of a location East of Jordan; — only in phrase בְּס ׳וָהֵב in ancient poetry fragment Num 21:14; TristrMoab 50 compare S¹fieh (), southeast oasis of Dead Sea, but ס = is most improbable

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Air15 occurrences Names of Locations1 occurrence

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