lapid · torch, flame

What it means

lapid (לַפִּיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “torch, flame”.

Also lightning.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A stick with fire at its tip, which lights and burns; a picture of brilliance.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• torches ×8
• torch ×5
• flames ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Judges×5
• Job×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 15:17

  When the sun had gone down and it was dark, look, a smoking oven and a torch of fire that passed between these pieces.

• Exodus 20:18

  All the people were seeing the thunders and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.

• Judges 7:16

  He divided the three hundred men into three companies and put horns in the hand of all of them, and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.

• Judges 7:20

  The three companies blew the horns and broke the jars; they held in their left hand the torches, and in their right hand the horns to blow, and they called out, “A sword for YHWH and for Gideon!”

• Judges 15:4

  And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned them tail to tail and put one torch between the two tails, in the middle.

• Judges 15:5

  He set fire to the torches and let them loose into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned up from the stacked grain to the standing grain and to the olive groves.

• Job 12:5

  A torch of contempt in the thought of the untroubled, ready for those who slip with the foot.

• Job 41:19

  From its mouth go forth torches; sparks of fire escape.

• Isaiah 62:1

  For the sake of Zion I will not keep silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes out like brightness, and her salvation like a torch that burns.

• Ezekiel 1:13

  And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches; it moved back and forth among the living creatures, and the fire had brightness, and from the fire went out lightning.

• Daniel 10:6

  and his body was like chrysolite, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

• Nahum 2:4

  In the streets the chariots go mad, they jostle one another in the squares; their appearance is like torches, like lightning flashes they run.

• Zechariah 12:6

  On that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a brazier of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire among sheaves; and they will devour, on the right and on the left, all the peoples around; and Jerusalem will again dwell in its place, in Jerusalem.

And 1 more times.