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Strong's #3940: lappiyd (pronounced lap-peed')

or lappid {lap-peed'}; from an unused root probably meaning to shine; a flambeau, lamp or flame:--(fire-)brand, (burning) lamp, lightning, torch.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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lappı̂yd / lappid

1) torch

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to shine



Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Genesis 15:17: "a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those"
Exodus 20:18: "saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain"
Judges 7:16: "hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers."
Judges 7:20: "and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left and the trumpets in their right"
Judges 15:4: "hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned to tail,"
Judges 15:4: "tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails."
Judges 15:5: "And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks,"
Job 12:5: "He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease."
Job 41:19: "Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out."
Isaiah 62:1: "until the righteousness thereof go forth and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth."
Ezekiel 1:13: "coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it among the living creatures;"
Daniel 10:6: "as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms like in color"
Nahum 2:4: "they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings."
Zechariah 12:6: "like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour"









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