רֶשֶׁף
resheph · H7565 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Thing
- ArrowArchery69 verses
Meanings
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flame, flash, spark
A sudden burst of brighly glowing light, whose source can be seen (like fire) or invisible (like lightning)
ExamplesJob 5:7 For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.
Psalm 78:48 He also turned their cattle over to the hailstones, And their herds to bolts of lightning.
Song of Solomon 8:6 ‘Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flames are flames of fire, The flame of the LORD.
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flashing arrows
Literally: flames of the bow; hence: pointed missile, shot from a bow; slender and straight in shape and moving swiftly; made out of wood and/or iron and used mainly for hunting and in warfare; in this context the focus is on the way the arrows flash through the sky
ExamplesPsalm 76:3 There He broke the flaming arrows, The shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah
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plague, disease
A destructive and deadly condition which affects nature
ExamplesDeuteronomy 32:24 ‘They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by plague And a bitter epidemic; And the teeth of beasts I will send against them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
Habakkuk 3:5 Before Him goes plague, And plague comes forth after Him.
How it’s used In 7 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
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- קֶשֶׁתbow 1
- אֵשׁfire 1
- הּher 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצָאto go out 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֶשֶׁףflame 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֶשֶׁףflame 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- לָחַםto fight, to make war 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- לַהַב lahab · H3851 · flame, aflame
- Both lexemes denote fiery, bright phenomena and both appear in the Weapons domain (blade/arrow), suggesting genuine overlap in sense (things that burn, flash, or strike with heat/light). This appears to be a real near-synonym pairing.
- כִידוֹד kîydôwd · H3590 · spark
- Both lexemes genuinely denote sparks/fiery particles and share the Fire domain. רֶשֶׁף (resheph, H7565) is polysemous (arrow, coal, heat, spark, thunderbolt), but the spark sense overlaps directly with כִידוֹד (kîydôwd, H3590)'s sole meaning. This is a real same-language near-synonym relationship.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Fire001002005006
- Song of Solomon 8:6 says love's "flames are flames of fire, the flame of the LORD," and Psalm 78:48 speaks of herds turned over to "bolts of lightning," both attesting the fiery, burning sense this word carries.
- Weapons001003001001020
- Psalm 78:48 pictures the LORD's judgment striking the herds like "bolts of lightning," a destructive, weapon-like force consistent with this word's "hot thunderbolt" sense; the gloss also carries an "arrow" sense in this same domain.
- Weak002001001069
- Deuteronomy 32:24 pictures Israel's enemies "wasted by famine, and emaciated by plague," using this word of a consuming, wasting force that leaves its victims weakened.
- Names of People003001007
- This domain belongs to the identically-spelled personal name Resheph (1 Chronicles 7:25), a descendant in Ephraim's genealogy, rather than to this word's own "arrow/coal/thunderbolt" sense. (The sampled citation at Psalm 76:4 does not itself show this word's sense in the given excerpt.)
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7565. resheph I. רֶ֫שֶׁף noun masculineHab 3:5 flame, fire-bolt; — absolute ׳ר Deu 32:24…
I. רֶ֫שֶׁף noun masculineHab 3:5 flame, fire-bolt; — absolute ׳ר Deu 32:24 +; plural רְשָׁפִים Psa 78:48, construct ׳רִשְׁפֵ Psa 76:4, רִשְׁמֵּי Son 8:6; suffix רְשֶׁפֶיהָ Son 8:6; —
1 flame: ׳ר ׳ר אֵשׁ Son 8:6 its flames (that is of קִנְאָה אַהֲבָה,) are flames of fire; ר ׳בְּנֵי Job 5:7 = sparks; ׳ר = pointed flame of lighting Psa 78:48 (|| בָּרָד); ׳ר קָ֑שֶׁת Psa 76:4 Sharp flames of the bow, figurative for arrows.
2 fire-bolt of ׳יְ brining pestilence and death, Deu 32:24 (compare Dr; || מְרִירִי קֶטֶב), Hab 3:5 (|| דֶּבֶר).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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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