Lappîyd — H3940

Definition

masculine noun

a flambeau, lamp or flame

1. torch

Usually translated as

lamp, firebrand, torch, brand, lightning

Origin

or lappid; from an unused root probably meaning to shine

Greek equivalents

• lampás (G2985)

Occurrences

Lappîyd occurs 14 times in 13 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (1), Judges (4), Job (2), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (1), Daniel (1), Nahum (1), Zechariah (1)

• Genesis 15:17 — And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp (וְלַפִּ֣יד) that passed between those pieces.
• Exodus 20:18 — And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings (הַלַּפִּידִ֗ם), and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
• Judges 7:16 — And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps (וְלַפִּדִ֖ים) within the pitchers.
• Judges 7:20 — And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps (בַּלַּפִּדִ֔ים) in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
• Judges 15:4 — And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands (לַפִּדִ֗ים), and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
• Judges 15:4 — And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand (לַפִּ֥יד) in the midst between two tails.
• Judges 15:5 — And when he had set the brands (בַּלַּפִּידִ֔ים) on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
• 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 (לַפִּידִ֣ים), and sparks of fire leap out.
• Isaiah 62:1 — For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp (כְּלַפִּ֥יד) that burneth.
• Ezekiel 1:13 — As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps (הַלַּפִּדִ֔ים): it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
• Daniel 10:6 — His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps (כְּלַפִּ֣ידֵי) of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
• Nahum 2:4 — The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches (כַּלַּפִּידִ֔ם), they shall run like the lightnings.
• Zechariah 12:6 — In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch (וּכְלַפִּ֥יד) of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.