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סוּס: swallow or swift (Isaiah 38:14; Jeremiah 8:7)

Pronunciation: soos · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5483

Meanings

סוּס: horse

1. non-Israelite (Judges 5:22; Judges 5:28; Judges 4:3)

2. in Israel (2 Samuel 15:1; 1 Kings 5:6; 1 Kings 5:8)

3. chariot-horses of ׳ י, (figurative of clouds) (Habakkuk 3:15; Zechariah 10:3)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 139 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 47:17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph in exchange for food. In exchange for their horses, flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and donkeys, Joseph provided them with food for another year.
  • Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous viper along the path that bites the horse’s hooves so its rider is thrown off.
  • Exodus 9:3 the hand of the Lord will strike all your livestock—your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, and goats—with a deadly plague.
  • Exodus 14:9 The Egyptians chased after them with all the forces in Pharaoh’s army—all his horses and chariots, his charioteers, and his troops. The Egyptians caught up with the people of Israel as they were camped beside the shore near Pi-hahiroth, across from Baal-zephon.
  • Exodus 14:23 Then the Egyptians—all of Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and charioteers—chased them into the middle of the sea.
  • Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; he has hurled both horse and rider into the sea.
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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).