Storm
נֶ֫פֶץStrong’s H5311nephets (ne-phets)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nephets is the Hebrew word usually translated “driving storm”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.”
Meaning
- Driving storm
How it's translated
- a driving storm 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫פֶץ nephets · storm
driving storm
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “storm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STORM, noun
[G., to disturb. Latin The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.[
- A violent wind; a tempest.
- A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter ad take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates and the like.
- Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace.
- Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity.
All definitions and other forms of “storm”
- Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.
STORM, verb transitive
To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
STORM, verb intransitive
- To raise a tempest.
- To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.
- To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume.
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.