סוּפָה

çûwphâh · Hebrew · Strong's H5492 · 16 occurrences

The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew and Greek words as “tempest”

What it means

a hurricane

from H5486 (סוּף);

How the KJV renders it

red sea, storm, tempest, whirlwind

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“tempest”

also renders cheimṓn (G5494), seismós (G4578), thýella (G2366), laîlaps (G2978), çaʻar (H5591), rûwach (H7307)

“storm”

also renders laîlaps (G2978), çâʻâh (H5584), çaʻar (H5591), shôwʼ (H7722), saʻar (H8178)

“whirlwind”

also renders çaʻar (H5591), rûwach (H7307)

“red sea”

also renders Çûwph (H5489)

Where it appears

16 occurrences in the Hebrew text.

Amos 1:14 · HNcfsa

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

Hosea 8:7 · HC/Ncfsa/Sh

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Isaiah 5:28 · HRd/Ncfsa

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

Isaiah 17:13 · HNcfsa

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 21:1 · HR/Ncfpa

The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

Isaiah 29:6 · HNcfsa

She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 66:15 HC/Rd/NcfsaJeremiah 4:13 HC/Rd/NcfsaJob 21:18 HNcfsaJob 27:20 HNcfsaJob 37:9 HNcfsaNahum 1:3 HR/NcfsaNumbers 21:14 HR/NpProverbs 1:27 HR/NcfsaProverbs 10:25 HNcfsaPsalm 83:15 HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp2ms

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.