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'Lightning' in the Bible

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp shuddered.

All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

He said:The Lord came from Sinaiand appeared to them from Seir;He shone on them from Mount Paranand came with ten thousand holy ones,with lightning from His right hand for them.

He shot arrows and scattered them;He hurled lightning bolts and routed them.

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “A lightning storm struck from heaven. It burned up the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

when He established a limit for the rainand a path for the lightning,

See how He spreads His lightning around Himand covers the depths of the sea.

He covers His hands with lightningand commands it to hit its mark.

He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;His lightning to the ends of the earth.

Then there comes a roaring sound;God thunders with His majestic voice.He does not restrain the lightningwhen His rumbling voice is heard.

He saturates clouds with moisture;He scatters His lightning through them.

Do you know how God directs His cloudsor makes their lightning flash?

Who cuts a channel for the flooding rainor clears the way for lightning,

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

He shot His arrows and scattered them;He hurled lightning bolts and routed them.

The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;lightning lit up the world.The earth shook and quaked.

He handed over their livestock to hailand their cattle to lightning bolts.

He gave them hail for rain,and lightning throughout their land.

Flash Your lightning and scatter the foe;shoot Your arrows and rout them.

When He thunders,the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,and He causes the cloudsto rise from the ends of the earth.He makes lightning for the rainand brings the wind from His storehouses.

The form of the living creatures was like the appearance of burning coals of fire and torches. Fire was moving back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, with lightning coming out of it.

The creatures were darting back and forth like flashes of lightning.

It is sharpened for slaughter,polished to flash like lightning!Should we rejoice?The scepter of My son,the sword despises every tree.

I have appointed a sword for slaughterat all their gates,so that their hearts may meltand many may stumble.Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning;it is drawn for slaughter.

“Now prophesy, son of man, and say: This is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt. You are to proclaim:A sword! A swordis drawn for slaughter,polished to consume, to flash like lightning.

His body was like topaz, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

The chariots dash madly through the streets;they rush around in the plazas.They look like torches;they dart back and forth like lightning.

Then the Lord will appear over them,and His arrow will fly like lightning.The Lord God will sound the trumpetand advance with the southern storms.

For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in His day.

Flashes of lightning and rumblings of thunder came from the throne. Seven fiery torches were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.

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אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

בּרק 
Baraq 
Usage: 21

חזיז 
Chaziyz 
Usage: 3

לפּד לפּיד 
Lappiyd 
Usage: 14

פּחזוּת 
Pachazuwth 
Usage: 1

ἀστραπή 
Astrape 
Usage: 5

ἐλαφρία 
Elaphria 
Usage: 1

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