Torch
לַפִּידStrong’s H3940lappid (lap-pid)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lappid is the Hebrew word usually translated “torches”, “on the torches” and “torch of”. It appears in 12 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
- Torch
How it's translated
- torches 3
- on the torches 2
- and a torch of 1
- the lightning 1
- and torches 1
- a torch 1
- like a torch 1
- like torches of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:6In contextIn that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
- Genesis 15:17And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
- Exodus 20:18And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
- Judges 7:16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
- Judges 7:20And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
- Judges 15:4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
Hebrew dictionary
לַפִּיד lappid · torch
torch
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “torch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TORCH, noun
[Latin torqueo, tortus.]
A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood or of candles.
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.