5488 - suph

Strong's Concordance

Original word: סוּף
Transliteration: suph
Definition (short): red
Definition (full): a reed, the papyrus

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: probably of foreign origin
Definition: reeds, rushes
NASB Translation: red* (24), reeds (2), rushes (1), weeds (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Probably of Egyptian origin; a reed, especially the papyrus -- flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare Cuwph.

see HEBREW Cuwph

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.
NASB: But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
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.
NASB: The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.
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.
NASB: So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
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.
NASB: Hence God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt.
KJV: Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
NASB: "Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.