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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3940

לַפִּיד

lappidlap-peed'

torch

13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lappîyd

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3940is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3940

a flambeau, lamp or flame

The King James renders it: (fire-) brand, (burning) lamp, lightning, torch.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

lappid is rendered "torch". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

Genesis 15:17וְלַפִּ֣יד

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's thirteen uses are in Judges.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • on the torches2
  • torches2
  • a torch1
  • and a torch of1
  • and like a torch of1
  • and torches1
  • like a torch1
  • like the torches1
  • like torches of1
  • the lightning1
  • the torches1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 13, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בַּלַּפִּדִ֔ים1
  • בַּלַּפִּידִ֔ים1
  • הַלַּפִּדִ֔ים1
  • הַלַּפִּידִ֗ם1
  • וּכְלַפִּ֥יד1
  • וְלַפִּדִ֖ים1
  • וְלַפִּ֣יד1
  • כְּלַפִּ֥יד1
  • כְּלַפִּ֣ידֵי1
  • כַּלַּפִּידִ֔ם1
  • לַפִּדִ֗ים1
  • לַפִּ֥יד1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural3HRd/Ncmpa
  • noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
  • noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa

Genesis

one use
  • When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

    Genesis 15:17

    • וְלַפִּ֣ידvelapidconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a torch of

Exodus

one use
  • When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.

    Exodus 20:18

    • הַלַּפִּידִ֗םhalapidimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the lightning

Judges

five uses
  • And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.

    Judges 7:16

    • וְלַפִּדִ֖יםvelapidimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and torches
  • The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

    Judges 7:20

    • בַּלַּפִּדִ֔יםbalapidimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: on the torches
  • Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

    Judges 15:4

    • לַפִּדִ֗יםlapidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: torches
    • לַפִּ֥ידlapidnoun · masculine singulartagged: a torch
  • Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

    Judges 15:5

    • בַּלַּפִּידִ֔יםbalapidimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: on the torches

Job

one use
  • Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

    Job 41:19

    • לַפִּידִ֣יםlapidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: torches

Isaiah

one use
  • For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

    Isaiah 62:1

    • כְּלַפִּ֥ידkelapidpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a torch

Ezekiel

one use
  • In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

    Ezekiel 1:13

    • הַלַּפִּדִ֔יםhalapidimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the torches

Daniel

one use
  • His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.

    Daniel 10:6

    • כְּלַפִּ֣ידֵיkelapideipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like torches of

Nahum

one use
  • The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.

    Nahum 2:4

    • כַּלַּפִּידִ֔םkalapidimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the torches

Zechariah

one use
  • On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.

    Zechariah 12:6

    • וּכְלַפִּ֥ידukhelapidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and like a torch of

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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