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סוּף H5488
H5488 is the Hebrew word סוּף, transliterated çûwph and said soof. The King James Version most often renders it red.
What it means
a reed, especially the papyrus.
Where it comes from
probably of Egyptian origin.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 28 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare H5489 (סוּף).
Verses using סוּף
All 28 verses, quoted in full.
Exodus 2:3 · KJV
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
Exodus 2:5 · KJV
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Exodus 10:19 · KJV
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Exodus 13:18 · KJV
But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 15:4 · KJV
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
Exodus 15:22 · KJV
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Exodus 23:31 · KJV
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Numbers 14:25 · KJV
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Numbers 21:4 · KJV
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Numbers 33:10 · KJV
And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers 33:11 · KJV
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Deuteronomy 1:40 · KJV
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Deuteronomy 2:1 · KJV
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy 11:4 · KJV
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Joshua 2:10 · KJV
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Joshua 4:23 · KJV
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Joshua 24:6 · KJV
And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
Judges 11:16 · KJV
But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
1 Kings 9:26 · KJV
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Nehemiah 9:9 · KJV
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Psalm 106:7 · KJV
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Psalm 106:9 · KJV
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Psalm 106:22 · KJV
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
Psalm 136:13 · KJV
To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalm 136:15 · KJV
But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Isaiah 19:6 · KJV
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
Jeremiah 49:21 · KJV
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
Jonah 2:5 · KJV
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
Common questions
What does Strong's H5488 mean?
H5488 is the Hebrew word סוּף (çûwph), meaning a reed, especially the papyrus.
How is H5488 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it red (23 times), flags (3 times), even at the red (1 time), weeds (1 time).
How many times does H5488 appear in the Bible?
סוּף (çûwph) is tagged in 28 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H5488 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: probably of Egyptian origin.
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