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'Lightning' in the Bible

On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking -- and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.

Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.

His lightning bolts light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.

Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

As I watched, I noticed a windstorm coming from the north -- an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing, such that bright light rimmed it and came from it like glowing amber from the middle of a fire.

In the middle of the living beings was something like burning coals of fire or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire.

The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning.

It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning! "'Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!

"As for you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation; say: "'A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning --

His body resembled yellow jasper, and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches; his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

The chariots race madly through the streets, they rush back and forth in the broad plazas; they look like lightning bolts, they dash here and there like flashes of lightning.

Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Lord God will blow the trumpet and will sally forth on the southern storm winds.

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

From the throne came out flashes of lightning and roaring and crashes of thunder. Seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God, were burning in front of the throne

Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth, and there were crashes of thunder, roaring, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

Then there were flashes of lightning, roaring, and crashes of thunder, and there was a tremendous earthquake -- an earthquake unequaled since humanity has been on the earth, so tremendous was that earthquake.

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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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