Flash
רֶ֫שֶׁףStrong’s H7565resheph (re-sheph)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Resheph is the Hebrew word usually translated “plague”, “flame” and “flames of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.”
Meaning
- Flame, firebolt, sparkflame · fire-bolt
How it's translated
- plague 1
- flame 1
- flames of 1
- to lightning bolts 1
- flashes its 1
- flashes of 1
- lightning 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Psalms 76:3There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
- Psalms 78:48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
- Song of Solomon 8:6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
- Habakkuk 3:5Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫שֶׁף resheph · flash
1) flame, firebolt, spark 1a) flame 1b) fire-bolt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flash” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLASH, noun
- A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; as a flash of lightning.
- A sudden burst of flame and light; as instantaneous blaze; as the flash of a gun.
- A sudden burst, as of wit or merriment; as a flash of wit; a flash of joy or mirth.
- A short, transient state.
All definitions and other forms of “flash”
- A body of water driven by violence. [Local.]
- A little pool. [Local.]
FLASH, verb intransitive
- To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst or open instantly on the sight, as splendor.
- To burst or break forth with a flood of flame and light; as, the powder flashed in the pan.
- To burst out into any kind of violence.
- To break out, as a sudden expression of wit, merriment or bright thought.
FLASH, verb transitive
- To strike up a body of water from the surface.
- To strike or to throw like a burst of light; as, to flash conviction on the mind.
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.