Lightning
בָּרָקStrong’s H1300baraq (ba-raq)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baraq is the Hebrew word usually translated “lightning”, “lightning of” and “lightning flashes”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Meaning
- Lightninglightnings, lightning flashes · of flashing arrow-head (fig.)
How it's translated
- lightning 10
- and lightning 2
- lightning of 1
- and lightning flashes 1
- lightning flashes 1
- lightning flashes his 1
- for lightning 1
- like lightning flashes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Ezekiel 4
- Job 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Nahum 2
- Exodus 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:14In contextAnd the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
- Exodus 19:16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
- Deuteronomy 32:41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
- 2 Samuel 22:15And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
- Job 20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
- Job 38:35Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
Hebrew dictionary
בָּרָק baraq · lightning
1) lightning 1a) lightnings, lightning flashes 1b) of flashing arrow-head (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lightning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIGHTNING, noun
li'tening. [that is, lightening, the participle present of lighten.]
- A sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, that is, from a body positively charged to one negatively charged, producing a vivid flash of light, and usually a loud report, called thunder.
- [from lighten, to diminish weight.] Abatement; alleviation; mitigation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.