STRONGS NUMBER H5489


Word Summary
Suph: "reed", a place near which the law was given
Original Word: סוּף
Transliteration: Suph
Phonetic Spelling: (soof)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "reed", a place near which the law was given
Meaning: Suph -- "reed", a place near which the law was given
Strong's Concordance
Red Sea

For cuwph (by ellipsis of yam); the Reed (Sea) -- Red Sea.

see HEBREW cuwph

see HEBREW yam

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5489. Suph

II. סוּףproper name, of a location (si vera lectio) named in defining location of Deuteronomic law-giving Deuteronomy 1:1 (סוּף מול‎, where מוֺל‎ by dissimil. for מוּל‎); but read perhaps סוּף מִיַּם‎ (ᵐ5πλησίον ρῆς ἐρυθρᾶς, ᵐ5L + θαλάσσης, ᵑ9contra mare rubrum), see I. סוּף‎.