Word Study · Strong's H5488 · Hebrew
סוּף
suph
soof
Strong's 1890 spelling: çûwph
“a reed, especially the papyrus”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a reed, especially the papyrus
Rendered in the KJV as
flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489 (סוּף).
- 28occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 11 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 12inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 28 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 12
- סֽוּף׃7
- ס֔וּף4
- ס֑וּף3
- סוּף֙3
- ס֖וּף3
- ס֭וּף2
- בַּסּ֖וּף1
- הַסּ֔וּף1
- וָס֖וּף1
- ס֛וּף1
- סּ֑וּף1
- סֽוּף׃ פ1
How it is rendered · 5
- reed[s]24
- among the rush[es]1
- and rush[es]1
- rush[es]1
- the rush[es]1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- noun · masculine singular24
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1
- noun · masculine singular1
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNtmsa · 24
- HC/Ncmsa · 1
- HNcmsa · 1
- HRd/Ncmsa · 1
- HTd/Ncmsa · 1
All 28, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Exodus7 of 28 · 25%
- Psalms5 of 28 · 18%
- Numbers4 of 28 · 14%
- Deuteronomy3 of 28 · 11%
- Joshua3 of 28 · 11%
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Exodus7 occurrences
- Exodus 2:3בַּסּ֖וּףbasufpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularBut when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.here: among the rush[es]
- Exodus 2:5הַסּ֔וּףhasufthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularSoon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.here: the rush[es]
- Exodus 10:19סּ֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singularAnd the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.here: reed[s]
- Exodus 13:18ס֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singularSo God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.here: reed[s]
- Exodus 15:4סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singularPharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.here: reed[s]
- Exodus 15:22ס֔וּףsufnoun · masculine singularThen Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.here: reed[s]
- Exodus 23:31סוּף֙sufnoun · masculine singularAnd I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.here: reed[s]
Numbers4 occurrences
- Numbers 14:25סֽוּף׃ פsufnoun · masculine singularNow since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”here: reed[s]
- Numbers 21:4ס֔וּףsufnoun · masculine singularThen they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journeyhere: reed[s]
- Numbers 33:10סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singularThey set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.here: reed[s]
- Numbers 33:11ס֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singularThey set out from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.here: reed[s]
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 1:40סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singularBut you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”here: reed[s]
- Deuteronomy 2:1ס֔וּףsufnoun · masculine singularThen we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.here: reed[s]
- Deuteronomy 11:4סוּף֙sufnoun · masculine singularwhat He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;here: reed[s]
Joshua3 occurrences
- Joshua 2:10סוּף֙sufnoun · masculine singularFor we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.here: reed[s]
- Joshua 4:23ס֛וּףsufnoun · masculine singularFor the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.here: reed[s]
- Joshua 24:6סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singularWhen I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.here: reed[s]
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Psalms5 occurrences
- Psalms 106:7סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singularOur fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.here: reed[s]
- Psalms 106:9ס֭וּףsufnoun · masculine singularHe rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.here: reed[s]
- Psalms 106:22סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singularwondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.here: reed[s]
- Psalms 136:13ס֭וּףsufnoun · masculine singularHe divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.here: reed[s]
- Psalms 136:15ס֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singularbut swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.here: reed[s]
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Same headword in Strong's