סוּפָהçûwphâh
סוּפָה: storm-wind, strom-wind, (that makes an end?) (Isaiah 5:28; Hosea 8:7; Psalms 83:16; Isaiah 21:1; Amos 1:14)
Pronunciation: soo-faw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5492
Meanings
סוּפָה: proper name [of a location]: East of Jordan (Numbers 21:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 21:14 For this reason The Book of the Wars of the Lord speaks of “the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the ravines of the Arnon River,
- Job 21:18 Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm like chaff? Not at all!
- Job 27:20 Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
- Job 37:9 The stormy wind comes from its chamber, and the driving winds bring the cold.
- Psalms 83:15 chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
- Proverbs 1:27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and anguish and distress overwhelm you.
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).