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# רֶשֶׁף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7565

**flame** — used 7 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

flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7565/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫שֶׁף: n.m. flame, fire-bolt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7565/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Hb 3:5 flame, fire-bolt;—abs. ר׳ Dt 32:24 +; pl. רְשָׁפִים ψ 78:48, cstr. רִשְׁפֵי 76:4, רִשְׁפֵּי Ct 8:6; sf. רְשָׁפֶיהָ v 6;— flame: ר׳ ר׳ אֵשׁ Ct 8:6 its flames (sc. of אַהֲבָה, קִנְאָה) are flames of fire; בְּנֵי ר׳ Jb 5:7 = sparks; ר׳ = pointed flame of lightning ψ 78:48 (‖ בָּרָד); ר׳ קָ֑שֶׁת 76:4 sharp flames of the bow, fig. for arrows. fire-bolt of י׳, bringing pestilence and death, Dt 32:24 (cf. Dr; ‖ קֶטֶב מְרִירִי), Hb 3:5 (‖ דֶּבֶר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flames (2); \[are\] flames (1); bolts (1).

## In the verses

[Job 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.7/#tree)

כִּֽי־אָ֭דָם לְעָמָ֣ל יוּלָּ֑ד וּבְנֵי־רֶ֝֗שֶׁף יַגְבִּ֥יהוּ עֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* (dm) everyone to trouble he.is.born and.\[the\] children of.flame they.make.high to.fly

*JPS 1917:* But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

[Psalms 76:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.4/#tree)

שָׁ֭מָּה שִׁבַּ֣ר רִשְׁפֵי־קָ֑שֶׁת מָגֵ֬ן וְחֶ֖רֶב וּמִלְחָמָ֣ה סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* there (to) he.shattered flames of.a.bow shield and sword and battle Selah

*JPS 1917:* There He broke the fiery shafts of the bow; the shield, and the sword, and the battle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7565.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7565/): 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).