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# סוּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5488

**reeds** — used 28 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

reeds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5488/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סוּף²: n.m. reeds, rushes Red Sea [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5488/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jon 2:6 reeds, rushes (coll.) (prob. loan-word from Egyptian ṭwfi, reeds, SteindorffBASi. 603 ErmanZMG xivi (1892), 122; Semitic according to WMMAs. u. Eur. 101);— rushes, in Nile Ex 2:3, 5 (E); קָנֶהוָסוּף Is 19:6 (of Egypt); Jon 2:6. usually in combin. יַם־סוּף prob. = sea of rushes or reeds (\> sea of (city) Suph), which Gk. incl. in wider name θάλασσα ἐρυθρά, Red Sea (cf. Di Ex 13:18 and especially WMMAs. u. Eur. 42 f., who expl. as name orig. given to upper end of Gulf of Suez, extending into Bitter Lakes, shallow and marshy, whence reeds (prob. also reddish colour));—name applied only to arms of Red Sea; most often to Gulf of Suez Ex 10:19 Jos 2:10 (both J), Ex 13:18; 15:4, 22; 23:31 (all E), Dt 11:4 Jos 4:23; 24:6 (D), Nu 33:10, 11 (P), elsewhere late Ne 9:9 ψ 106:7, 9, 22; 136:13, 15. sometimes to Gulf of Akaba 1 K 9:26, and דֶּרֶךְ יַם־סוּף Nu 21:4 (E), prob. also 14:25 (E), Dt 1:40; 2:1; perhaps Ju 11:16 Je 49:21; poss. read מִיַּם־סוּף for מוֹל ס׳ Dt 1:1 (v. infr.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of reed\[s\] (24); rush\[es\] (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 106:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.22/#tree)

נִ֭פְלָאוֹת בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חָ֑ם נ֝וֹרָא֗וֹת עַל־יַם־סֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* wonders in the.land of.Ham awesome.\[deeds\] at \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

[Numbers 33:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.10/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵאֵילִ֑ם וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ עַל־יַם־סֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Elim and they.encamped at \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5488.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5488/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).