sus · horse

What it means

sus (סוּס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “horse”.

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 war and draft animal that pulls chariots, or the one who rides it.
2. Another word spelled the same: a small fast-flying bird.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Horse. BDB: a horse; another word written the same way is the swallow or swift.

• Pharaoh's horses Exodus 14:9Exodus 15:1
• The king is not to multiply horses Deuteronomy 17:16
• “Some of chariots and some of horses” Psalms 20:7
• A chariot of fire and horses of fire 2 Kings 2:11
• Swallow Jeremiah 8:7Isaiah 38:14

How we translate it

“Horses” 98 times, “horse” 37, “horseback” 2, “swallow” 2. In Jeremiah 8:7 and Isaiah 38:14 it is a bird, “the swallow”, the other sense BDB gives.

How it is translated

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

• horses ×98
• horse ×37
• horseback ×2
• swallow ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×6
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×13
• 2 Kings×20
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×6
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×16
• Ezekiel×12
• Hosea×2
• Joel×1
• Amos×3
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×3
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×14

• Genesis 47:17

  So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys; and he carried them through with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that its rider falls backward.

• Exodus 9:3

  look, the hand of YHWH will be on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the flocks, with a very severe pestilence.

• Exodus 14:9

  The Egyptians pursued them and overtook them camping by the sea, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, near Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

• Exodus 14:23

  The Egyptians pursued and went in after them, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea.

• Exodus 15:1

  Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to YHWH, and they said: “I will sing to YHWH, for he is highly exalted; horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.

• Exodus 15:19

  For when the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, YHWH brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

• Exodus 15:21

  And Miriam answered them, “Sing to YHWH, for he is highly exalted; horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.”

• 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;

• Deuteronomy 17:16

  Only he shall not multiply horses for himself, and he shall not make the people return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since YHWH has said to you, “You shall not again return on this way.”

• Deuteronomy 20:1

  When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots, a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them, for YHWH your Elohim is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

• Joshua 11:4

  They came out, they and all their camps with them, a people as many as the sand that is on the shore of the sea, in multitude, and horses and chariots, very many.

• Joshua 11:6

  YHWH said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for tomorrow at this time I will give all of them slain before Israel. Their horses you shall hamstring and their chariots you shall burn with fire.”

• Joshua 11:9

  Joshua did to them as YHWH had told him: their horses he hamstrung, and their chariots he burned with fire.

• Judges 5:22

  Then the hoofs of the horses hammered from the galloping, the galloping of his steeds.

• 2 Samuel 15:1

  After this, Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men running before him.

• 1 Kings 4:26

  And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

• 1 Kings 4:28

  And the barley and the straw for the horses and for the steeds they brought to the place where it should be, each according to his rule.

• 1 Kings 10:25

  And they were bringing, each his tribute: utensils of silver and utensils of gold, and cloaks, and weapons, and spices, horses and mules, what was due for a year, year by year.

• 1 Kings 10:28

  And the source of the horses that belonged to Solomon was from Egypt and from Kue; the merchants of the king would take them from Kue at a price.

• 1 Kings 10:29

  And a chariot would come up and go out from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so, for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram, by their hand they would bring them out.

• 1 Kings 18:5

  Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we will find grass and keep alive horse and mule, and not have to cut off some of the animals.”

• 1 Kings 20:1

  Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his troops; thirty and two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.

• 1 Kings 20:20

  They struck down each one his man; and Aram fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen.

• 1 Kings 20:21

  The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and the chariots, and struck Aram with a great blow.

• 1 Kings 20:25

  And you, count for yourself troops like the troops that fell from you, horse for horse and chariot for chariot; and let us fight against them on the plateau, and surely we will be stronger than they.” He listened to their voice and did so.

• 1 Kings 22:4

  And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to war at Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

• 2 Kings 2:11

  And it happened, as they were walking along and talking, that, look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah went up in the whirlwind to the heavens.

• 2 Kings 3:7

  He went and sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to Moab for battle?” He said, “I will go up; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

• 2 Kings 5:9

  Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha.

• 2 Kings 6:14

  He sent there horses and chariots and a heavy force, and they came by night and surrounded the city.

• 2 Kings 6:15

  The attendant of the man of Elohim rose early to get up and went out, and there was a force surrounding the city, with horses and chariots. His young man said to him, “Alas, my lord! What shall we do?”

• 2 Kings 6:17

  Elisha prayed and said, “YHWH, please open his eyes so that he may see.” YHWH opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and there was the mountain, full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

• 2 Kings 7:6

  Adonai had caused the camp of Aram to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, the sound of a great force; and they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”

• 2 Kings 7:7

  They got up and fled at twilight and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, the camp just as it was, and they fled for their lives.

• 2 Kings 7:10

  They came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, “We came to the camp of Aram, and there was no one there, not a human sound, but only the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”

• 2 Kings 7:13

  One of his servants answered and said, “Let men take, please, five of the remaining horses, which are left in it; look, they are like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; look, they are like all the multitude of Israel that have perished; and let us send and see.”

• 2 Kings 7:14

  They took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the camp of Aram, saying, “Go and see.”

• 2 Kings 9:18

  The rider on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is there peace?’” Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” The watchman reported, saying, “The messenger came to them, but he has not come back.”

• 2 Kings 9:19

  He sent a second rider on horseback, and he came to them and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Peace?’” Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.”

And 99 more times.