רֶשֶׁףresheph
flame, fire-bolt
Pronunciation: reh'-shef · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7565
Meanings
1. flame (Song of Solomon 8:6; Job 5:7; Psalms 78:48)
2. fire-bolt (Deuteronomy 32:24; Habakkuk 3:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 I will weaken them with famine, burning fever, and deadly disease. I will send the fangs of wild beasts and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
- Job 5:7 People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
- Psalms 76:3 There he has broken the fiery arrows of the enemy, the shields and swords and weapons of war. Interlude
- Psalms 78:48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.
- Habakkuk 3:5 Pestilence marches before him; plague follows close behind.
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).