Strong's Hebrew · H3940

H3940 lappîyd

לַפִּיד

lap-peed'

torch

Looking for Greek G3940 paroikía? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3940. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

lappîyd appears 13 times in Scripture, including Genesis 15:17 and Exodus 20:18. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a flambeau, lamp or flame

In the King James Version

(fire-) brand, (burning) lamp, lightning, torch.

Derivation

or לַפִּד; from an unused root probably meaning to shine;

Appears 13 times in Scripture

Judges 7:20

“The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!””

Judges 15:4

“Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.”

Zechariah 12:6

“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.”

Judges 7:16

“And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.”

Job 41:19

“Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!”

Isaiah 62:1

“For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.”

Genesis 15:17

“When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.”

Exodus 20:18

“When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.”

Judges 15:5

“Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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