suf · reeds

What it means

suf (סוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “reeds”.

Rushes at the water's edge; also seaweed (Jonah 2:5). From this word comes the name "Sea of Reeds".

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. Tall shore plants; "the Sea of Rushes".
2. Plants that grow underwater, like seaweed that tangles.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Reeds ×26
• rush ×1
• seaweed ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×7
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Jonah×1

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

• Exodus 2:5

  The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, while her young women were walking beside the Nile. She saw the ark among the reeds and sent her maid, and she took it.

• Exodus 10:19

  And YHWH turned it into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

• Exodus 13:18

  So Elohim led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Sea of Reeds. And the sons of Israel went up in battle formation from the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 15:4

  Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has cast into the sea; and his choicest captains were sunk in the Sea of Reeds.

• Exodus 15:22

  Then Moses led Israel onward from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

• Exodus 23:31

  I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I will give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out from before you.

• Numbers 14:25

  Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valley. Tomorrow turn and set out for yourselves into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”

• Numbers 21:4

  And they set out from Hor the mountain by the way of the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people grew impatient on the way.

• Numbers 33:10

  They set out from Elim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.

• Numbers 33:11

  They set out from the Sea of Reeds and camped in the wilderness of Sin.

• Deuteronomy 1:40

  But you, turn and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”

• Deuteronomy 2:1

  Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds, as YHWH had spoken to me, and we went around Mount Seir many days.

• Deuteronomy 11:4

  and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and to its chariots, how he made the waters of the Sea of Reeds flow over their faces when they pursued you, and YHWH made them perish to this day;

• Joshua 2:10

  For we have heard how YHWH dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorite who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you devoted to destruction.

• Joshua 4:23

  For YHWH your Elohim dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as YHWH your Elohim did to the Sea of Reeds, which he dried up before us until we had crossed,

• Joshua 24:6

  And I brought out your fathers from Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Sea of Reeds.

• Judges 11:16

  For when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds and came to Kadesh.

• 1 Kings 9:26

  And King Solomon made ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth, on the shore of the Sea of Reeds, in the land of Edom.

• Nehemiah 9:9

  And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their outcry you heard by the Sea of Reeds;

• Psalms 106:7

  Our fathers in Egypt did not understand your wonders; they did not remember the abundance of your loyal love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.

• Psalms 106:9

  And he rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up; and he led them through the depths as through the wilderness.

• Psalms 106:22

  wonders in the land of Ham, awesome things by the Sea of Reeds.

• Psalms 136:13

  to him who split the Sea of Reeds into parts, for his loyal love is forever.

• Psalms 136:15

  and shook off Pharaoh and his army in the Sea of Reeds, for his loyal love is forever.

• Isaiah 19:6

  And the rivers will stink; the canals of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

• Jeremiah 49:21

  At the sound of their fall the earth quakes; there is a cry; at the Sea of Reeds its sound is heard.

• Jonah 2:5

  The waters encompassed me up to the soul; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.