sufa · storm, whirlwind; Suphah

What it means

sufa (סוּפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “storm, whirlwind; Suphah”.

Whirlwind, storm. In Numbers 21:14, Suphah, the name of a place.

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 strong wind that sweeps away.
2. Suphah, a place named in an old song of the wars of YHWH, near the Arnon.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• whirlwind ×12
• storm ×2
• Like whirlwinds ×1
• Suphah ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Nahum×1

• Numbers 21:14

  Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of YHWH: “Waheb in Suphah, and the brooks of the Arnon,

• Job 21:18

  Are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the whirlwind steals away?

• Job 27:20

  Terrors overtake him like waters; by night the whirlwind steals him away.

• Job 37:9

  From the chamber comes the whirlwind, and from the north winds the cold.

• Psalms 83:15

  so pursue them with your tempest, and with your storm dismay them.

• Proverbs 1:27

  when your dread comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

• Proverbs 10:25

  When the whirlwind passes, the wicked one is no more, but the righteous one is a foundation forever.

• Isaiah 5:28

  Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent; the hooves of its horses are counted like flint, and its wheels like the whirlwind.

• Isaiah 17:13

  The nations, like the uproar of many waters, resound; but he rebukes it, and it flees far away, and is chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm wind.

• Isaiah 21:1

  The burden of the wilderness of the sea. Like whirlwinds in the Negev sweeping through, from the wilderness it comes, from a fearsome land.

• Isaiah 29:6

  From YHWH Tsevaot she will be visited with thunder and with earthquake and a great noise, whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.

• Isaiah 66:15

  For look, YHWH will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to pay back his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

• Jeremiah 4:13

  Look, like clouds he comes up, and like the whirlwind are his chariots; swifter than eagles are his horses. Woe to us, for we are devastated!

• Hosea 8:7

  For wind they sow, and a whirlwind they will reap; standing grain, it has no sprout; it will not yield flour; if perhaps it yields, strangers will swallow it.

• Amos 1:14

  And I will kindle fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour her citadels, with a war cry on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

• Nahum 1:3

  YHWH is slow to anger and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. YHWH, in the whirlwind and in the storm is his way, and clouds are the dust of his feet.