Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H5488
סוּף
suphsoof
Red (Sea)
28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çûwph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5488is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5488
a reed, especially the papyrus
The King James renders it: flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489 (סוּף).
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
suph is rendered "Red (Sea)". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 2:3But 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.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
But 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.
Exodus 2:3בַּסּ֖וּף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- reed24
- among the rush1
- and rush1
- rush1
- the rush1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- סֽוּף׃7
- ס֔וּף4
- ס֑וּף3
- סוּף֙3
- ס֖וּף3
- ס֭וּף2
- בַּסּ֖וּף1
- הַסּ֔וּף1
- וָס֖וּף1
- ס֛וּף1
- סּ֑וּף1
- סֽוּף׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular24HNtmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
seven uses
But 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.
- בַּסּ֖וּףbasufpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: among the rush
Soon 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.
- הַסּ֔וּףhasufthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the rush
And 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.
- סּ֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
So 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.
- ס֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
- סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Then 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.
- ס֔וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
And 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.
- סוּף֙sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Numbers
four uses
Now 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.”
- סֽוּף׃ פsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Then 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 journey
- ס֔וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
- סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
- ס֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Deuteronomy
three uses
But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
- סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Then 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.
- ס֔וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
what 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;
- סוּף֙sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Joshua
three uses
For 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.
- סוּף֙sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
For 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.
- ס֛וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
When 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.
- סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Judges
one use
But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
- ס֔וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
1 Kings
one use
King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
- ס֖וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Nehemiah
one use
You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.
- סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Psalms
five uses
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
- סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
- ס֭וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
- סֽוּף׃sufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
- ס֭וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.
- ס֑וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Isaiah
one use
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
- וָס֖וּףvasufconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and rush
Jeremiah
one use
At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
- ס֖וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: reed
Jonah
one use
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
- ס֖וּףsufnoun · masculine singulartagged: rush
The letters
Gematria 146· 866 mispar gadol
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
