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# סוּפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5492

**storm-wind** — used 15 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

storm-wind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5492/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סוּפָה: n.f. storm-wind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5492/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. storm-wind (that makes an end?);—abs. ס׳ Is 5:28 +; סוּפָ֫תָה Ho 8:7 (Ges§ 90 f.); sf. סוּפָֽתְךָ ψ 83:16; pl. סוּפוֹת Is 21:1;—storm-wind, כְּסַעַר בְּיוֹם ס׳ Am 1:14, Na 1:3 (‖ שְׂעָרָה), Is 17:13 (‖ רוּחַ), Jb 37:9 Is 21:1, as driving chaff Jb 21:18 (vb. גָּנַב; in sim.), sim. of rushing chariots Is 5:28; 66:15 Je 4:13, of ruin Pr 1:27 cf. 10:25; symbol. of י׳’s judgments, רוּחַ יִזְרָ֖עוּ וְס׳ יִקְצֹ֑רוּ Ho 8:7, ψ 83:16 (‖ סַעַר), Jb 27:20 (vb. גָּנַב), Is 29:6 (+ סְעָרָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a storm-wind (7); storm-wind (4); a (1).

## In the verses

[Job 37:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.9/#tree)

מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* from the chamber it.comes a.storm-wind and from the.scattering.winds coldness

*JPS 1917:* Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.

[Job 27:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.20/#tree)

תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it overtakes.him like (the) waters sudden.terror(s) night it steals.him.away a.storm-wind

*JPS 1917:* Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5492.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5492/): 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).