לַפִּיד

Genesis 15:17 וְלַפִּ֣יד and a torch of

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

Here: A hand torch or flare, an open flame on a stick (Gideon's torches, Judg 7). Linked to the next word: 'a torch of fire'.

Exodus 20:18 הַלַּפִּידִ֗ם the lightning

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.

Here: Literally “the torches.” Most translations take it as lightning flashes, but the word normally means a burning torch or flame. It recalls the fire in which God came down on the mountain (19:18).

Judges 7:16 וְלַפִּדִ֖ים and torches

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.

Judges 7:20 בַּלַּפִּדִ֔ים on the torches

The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

Judges 15:4 לַפִּדִ֗ים לַפִּ֥יד torches, a torch

Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

Judges 15:5 בַּלַּפִּידִ֔ים on the torches

Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

Job 41:19 לַפִּידִ֣ים torches

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

Isaiah 62:1 כְּלַפִּ֥יד like a torch

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

Here: An open, flaring torch, the kind carried in the night or set to a field. It is not a small household oil lamp. It pictures something blazing that cannot be missed.

Ezekiel 1:13 הַלַּפִּדִ֔ים <the> torches

In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

Here: Flaming torches or brands: open, flickering, moving flames, not small oil lamps. The word is used for the lightning at Sinai (Exod 20:18) and the fiery torch that passed between the pieces of Abraham's covenant sacrifice (Gen 15:17).

Daniel 10:6 כְּלַפִּ֣ידֵי [were] like torches of

His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.

Here: Hand-held torches or firebrands, not small household lamps. The picture is of eyes that blaze and throw off living flame.

Nahum 2:4 כַּלַּפִּידִ֔ם [are] like <the> torches

The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.

Here: "Like torches": blazing, flickering flames. The image picks up the fire-like glint of the chariot fittings in the previous verse ("flash like fire") and red-dyed shields and clothing.

Zechariah 12:6 וּכְלַפִּ֥יד and like a torch of

On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.

Here: 'And like a torch (of)': a burning brand. The same word is used for Gideon's torches (Judges 7) and the torches Samson tied to foxes to burn the Philistine grain (Judges 15).