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Strong's #7565 - רֶשֶׁף
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) flame, firebolt, spark
1a) flame
1b) fire-bolt
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2800) psr (רסהפ RShP) AC: ? CO: Spark AB: ?
Nm ) psr (רסהפ RShP) - Spark: The spark of a fire or thunderbolt. Also an arrow as a flashing thunderbolt. KJV (7): coal, heat, spark, arrow, thunderbolt - Strongs: H7565 (רֶשֶׁף)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 flame: אֵשׁ׳ר ׳ר Song of Solomon 8:6 its flames (that is of אַהֲבָה, קִנְאָה) are flames of fire; ׳בְּנֵי ר Job 5:7 = sparks; ׳ר = pointed flame of lighting Psalm 78:48 ("" בָּרָד); קָ֑שֶׁת׳ר Psalm 76:4 Sharp flames of the bow, figurative for arrows.
2 fire-bolt of ׳יְ brining pestilence and death, Deuteronomy 32:24 (compare Dr; "" קֶטֶב מְרִירִי), Habakkuk 3:5 ("" דֶּבֶר).
רֶשֶׁף m.
(1) a flame, Song of Solomon 8:6 comp. Chald., Psalms 78:48. Targum.
(2) lightning, Psalms 78:48. Hence poet., 76:4, רִשְׁפֵי קֶשֶׁת “lightnings of the bow,” i.e. arrows, and Job 5:7, בְּנֵי רֶשֶׁף “sons of lightning,” i.e. ravenous birds flying with the rapidity of lightning, Job 5:7.
(3) a burning fever, a plague, by which the body is inflamed (compare חֵמָה heat and poison). Deuteronomy 32:24: לְחֻמֵי רֶשֶׁף “consumed with pestilence,” Habakkuk 3:5 (where there is in the other hemistich דֶּבֶר plague).
(4) [Resheph], pr.n. 1 Chronicles 7:25.