Limitless Word
סוּףçûwph/soof/
HebrewH548828 occurrences (KJV)

a reed, especially the papyrus

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

Where it appears

  • Exod 2:3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
  • Exod 2:5Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
  • Exod 10:19Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
  • Exod 13:18but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 15:4He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
  • Exod 15:22Moses led Israel onward 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.
  • Exod 23:31I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
  • Num 14:25Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
  • Num 21:4They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.
  • Num 33:10They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
  • Num 33:11They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
  • Deut 1:40But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
  • Deut 2:1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.
  • Deut 11:4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
  • Josh 2:10For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
  • Josh 4:23For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over;
  • Josh 24:6I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
  • Judg 11:16but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
  • 1 Kgs 9:26King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
  • Neh 9:9“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
  • Ps 106:7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
  • Ps 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
  • Ps 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
  • Ps 136:13To him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;
  • Ps 136:15But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Isa 19:6The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
  • Jer 49:21The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.
  • Jonah 2:5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.