This word comes from the name of Horse Gate.
Definition
or סֻס; from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
Traditional renderings: crane, horse (-back, -hoof). Compare H6571.
Traditional renderings: crane, horse (-back, -hoof). Compare H6571.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
139 total
- Jeremiah 51:27ס֖וּס · horses“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
- Ezekiel 17:15סוּסִ֖ים · horsesBut this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’
- Ezekiel 23:6סוּסִֽים׃ · steeds…clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
- Ezekiel 23:12סוּסִ֑ים · steedsShe too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.
- Ezekiel 23:20סוּסִ֖ים · of stallions…and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
- Ezekiel 23:23סוּסִ֖ים · horses…the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.
- Ezekiel 26:7בְּס֛וּס · with horsesFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.
- Ezekiel 26:10סוּסָ֖יו · of horsesHis multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
- Ezekiel 26:11סוּסָ֔יו · of his horsesThe hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.
- Ezekiel 27:14סוּסִ֤ים · horsesThe men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.
- Ezekiel 38:4סוּסִ֣ים · your horsesI will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.
- Ezekiel 38:15סוּסִים֙ · horsesAnd you will come from your place out of the far north—you and many peoples with you, all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army.
- Ezekiel 39:20ס֣וּס · of horsesAnd at My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and warriors of every kind,’ declares the Lord GOD.
- Hosea 1:7בְּסוּסִ֖ים · not by horsesYet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
- Hosea 14:3סוּס֙ · horsesAssyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- Joel 2:4סוּסִ֖ים · of horsesTheir appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.
- Amos 2:15הַסּ֔וּסThe archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.
- Amos 4:10סֽוּסֵיכֶ֑ם · horses“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 6:12סוּסִ֔ים · Do horses“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
- Micah 5:10סוּסֶ֖יךָ · your horses“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
- Nahum 3:2וְס֣וּס · horseThe crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
- Habakkuk 1:8סוּסָ֗יו · Their horsesTheir horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
- Habakkuk 3:8סוּסֶ֔יךָ · Your horsesWere You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
- Habakkuk 3:15סוּסֶ֑יךָ · with Your horsesYou trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
- Haggai 2:22סוּסִים֙ · horsesI will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
- Zechariah 1:8 (2×)ס֣וּס · horse; סוּסִ֣ים · horsesI looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
- Zechariah 6:2 (2×)סוּסִ֣ים · horses; סוּסִ֥ים · horsesThe first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
- Zechariah 6:3 (2×)סוּסִ֣ים · horses; סוּסִ֥ים · horses…the third white horses, and the fourth dappled horses—all of them strong.
- Zechariah 6:6הַסּוּסִ֣ים · horsesThe one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
- Zechariah 9:10וְסוּס֙ · and the horseAnd I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
- Zechariah 10:3כְּס֥וּס · steed“My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD of Hosts attends to His flock, the house of Judah; He will make them like His royal steed in battle.
- Zechariah 10:5סוּסִֽים׃They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
- Zechariah 12:4 (2×)סוּס֙ · horse; ס֣וּס · the horsesOn that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and every rider with madness. I will keep a watchful eye on the house of Judah, but I will strike with blindness all the horses of the nations.
- Zechariah 14:15הַסּ֗וּס · the horsesAnd a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
- Zechariah 14:20הַסּ֔וּס · of the horsesOn that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.