Strong's Hebrew · H5488
סוּף
çûwph · soof
Definitiona reed, especially the papyrus
Derivationprobably of Egyptian origin;
KJV usageflag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489 (סוּף).
Occurrences28 in the KJV · 28 verses
סוּף in Scripture
Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river' s brink.
Exodus 2:5
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river' s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Exodus 10:19
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Exodus 13:18
But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 15:4
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
Exodus 15:22
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Exodus 23:31
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Numbers 14:25
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Numbers 21:4
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Numbers 33:10
And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers 33:11
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Deuteronomy 1:40
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
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