Reed
סוּףStrong’s H5488suph
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Suph is the Hebrew word usually translated “reed”, “among the rush” and “rush”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.”
Meaning
- Of Red Sea
- Of Gulf of Suez
- Of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba
- Reed, rush, water plantrushes · sea of rushes - used of Red Sea
How it's translated
- reed 24
- among the rush 1
- the rush 1
- and rush 1
- rush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 7
- Psalms 5
- Numbers 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Joshua 3
- Judges 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 2:5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
- Exodus 10:19And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:18But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 15:4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
- Exodus 15:22So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
- Exodus 23:31And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Hebrew dictionary
סוּף suph · Red (Sea)
1) of Red Sea 2) of Gulf of Suez 3) of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba Also named: eruthros (ἐρυθρός "Red( Sea)" G2063) as "Reed Sea"
סוּף suph · reed
1) reed, rush, water plant 1a) rushes 1b) sea of rushes - used of Red Sea
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “reed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REED, noun
- The common name of many aquatic plants; most of them large grasses, with hollow jointed stems, such as the common reed of the genus Arundo, the bamboo, etc.
- A musical pipe; reeds being anciently used for instruments of music.
- A little tube through which a hautboy, bassoon or clarinet is blown.
- An arrow, as made of a reed headed.
All definitions
- Thatch.
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.