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suph H5488

סוּף (suph) means “Red (Sea)” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

סוּף Hebrew · H5488 28 tagged occurrences in 28 verses

Pronunciation guide: soof Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5488G

סוּף · suph · Red (Sea)

1) of Red Sea 2) of Gulf of Suez 3) of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba Also named: eruthros (ἐρυθρός "Red( Sea)" G2063) as "Reed Sea"

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TBESH · H5488H

סוּף · suph · reed

1) reed, rush, water plant 1a) rushes 1b) sea of rushes - used of Red Sea

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

probably of Egyptian origin; a reed, especially the papyrus

KJV glosses: flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489 (סוּף).

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How translators render H5488

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
the red 7
of the red 4
to the red 4
from the red 3
into the red 2
and rushes 1
in the red 1
it among the reeds 1
the reeds 1
the seaweed 1
there at the red 1
toward the red 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
of the red 8
by the red 3
from the red 3
in the red 3
the red 2
unto the red 2
and flags 1
at the red 1
in the flags 1
the flags 1
the weeds 1
them into the red 1
to the red 1

Verses containing H5488

Page 1 of 1. 28 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Exodus 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. Exodus 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. Exodus 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  4. Exodus 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  5. Exodus 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

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  6. Exodus 15:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. Exodus 23:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  8. Numbers 14:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  9. Numbers 21:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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

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  10. Numbers 33:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.

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  11. Numbers 33:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.

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  12. Deuteronomy 1:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

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  13. Deuteronomy 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  14. Deuteronomy 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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;

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  15. Joshua 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  16. Joshua 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  17. Joshua 24:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  18. Judges 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

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  19. 1 Kings 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

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  20. Nehemiah 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

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  21. Psalms 106:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  22. Psalms 106:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

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  23. Psalms 106:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

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  24. Psalms 136:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.

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  25. Psalms 136:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.

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  26. Isaiah 19:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

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  27. Jeremiah 49:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

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  28. Jonah 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.6

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