לַפִּיד
lap.pid (H3940)
torch
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "לַפִּיד" (lap.pid, Strong's H3940) translates to "torch". Its inclusion in the category of "Light & Darkness" suggests that torches played a significant role in biblical times, likely used for illumination in various contexts. The word's frequent use (13 occurrences in the Bible) underscores its importance in everyday life. Given its association with light, a torch was likely essential for tasks such as work, travel, and security in the evening or at night. The versatility of "לַפִּיד" can be inferred from its appearances in different contexts, from general settings to specific rituals or ceremonies, where torchlight may have added visual or symbolic significance. While we can't attribute a direct moral or spiritual meaning to the word "torch" in isolation, its connection to light highlights the human reliance on light to navigate and function in the world. The biblical use of "לַפִּיד" underscores the practical significance of torches, pointing to the resourcefulness and resource dependency of ancient societies.
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It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.
For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.
The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.