לַפִּידlappîyd

torch (Judges 15:4; Isaiah 62:1; Genesis 15:17; Zechariah 12:6; Judges 15:5)

Pronunciation: lap-peed' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3940

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 15:17 After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.
  • Exodus 20:18 When the people heard the thunder and the loud blast of the ram’s horn, and when they saw the flashes of lightning and the smoke billowing from the mountain, they stood at a distance, trembling with fear.
  • Judges 7:16 He divided the 300 men into three groups and gave each man a ram’s horn and a clay jar with a torch in it.
  • Judges 7:20 Then all three groups blew their horns and broke their jars. They held the blazing torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, and they all shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”
  • Judges 15:4 Then he went out and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together in pairs, and he fastened a torch to each pair of tails.
  • Judges 15:5 Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the grain fields of the Philistines. He burned all their grain to the ground, including the sheaves and the uncut grain. He also destroyed their vineyards and olive groves.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).