Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
torch
Usage: torch
Lappid means “lightning” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3940 — paroikia (“sojourning”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3940 לַפִּידּ לַפִּד (lappiyd) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. lappiyd (lap-peed') (or lappid {lap-peed'}) n-m. 1. a flambeau, lamp or flame [from an unused root probably meaning to shine] It has 13 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include lamps, fire, and lamp. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
lappiyd (lap-peed') (or lappid {lap-peed'}) n-m. 1. a flambeau, lamp or flame [from an unused root probably meaning to shine] KJV: (fire-)brand, (burning) lamp, lightning, torch.
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torch
Usage: torch
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render lappiyd, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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13 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
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 within the pitchers.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3940.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
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 within the pitchers.
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps 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.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
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, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
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 that burneth.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps 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.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch 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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3940, grouped by book.
Lappid (Strong's H3940) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lightning". lappiyd (lap-peed') (or lappid {lap-peed'}) n-m. 1. a flambeau, lamp or flame [from an unused root probably meaning to shine]
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's H3940 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3940 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lamps, fire, and lamp. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.