רֶשֶׁף resheph

Meaning

a live coal; by analogy lightning; figuratively, an arrow, (as flashing through the air); specifically, fever

In the King James Version: arrow, (burning) coal, burning heat, [phrase] spark, hot thunderbolt.

Derivation: from H8313 (שָׂרַף);

Where it is used

• Deuteronomy 32:24 They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
• Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
• Psalms 76:3 There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
• Psalms 78:48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
• Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
• Habakkuk 3:5 Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.