Whirlwind
סוּפָהStrong’s H5492suphah (su-phah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Suphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “storm-wind”, “like the storm-wind” and “suphah”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,”
Meaning
- Storm-wind
- § Suphah = "honeycomb: overflow"
How it's translated
- a storm-wind 7
- and like the storm-wind 2
- in suphah 1
- and with storm-wind your 1
- like a storm-wind 1
- like storm-wind 1
- like storm-winds 1
- and a storm-wind 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Job 3
- Proverbs 2
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Job 27:20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- Job 37:9Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
- Psalms 83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 10:25As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Hebrew dictionary
סוּפָה suphah · whirlwind
storm-wind
סוּפָה suphah · Suphah
§ Suphah = "honeycomb: overflow" a place east of the Jordan
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whirlwind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHIRLWIND, noun
[whirl and wind.]
A violent wind moving in a circle, or rather in a spiral form, as if moving round an axis; this axis or the perpendicular column moving horizontally, raising and whirling dust, leaves and the like.
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.