Lightning

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LIGHTNING.—Our colloquial use of ‘fire’ for ‘lightning’ had its counterpart in Heb., e.g. in such a phrase as ‘fire (’çsh) and hail’ (Exo_9:23 etc.; cf. Gen_19:24, 1Ki_18:38 etc.). The Heb. ’ôr (Job_37:3) is lit. ‘light’; bâzâq (Eze_1:14) should probably read bârâq; lappîd, lit. ‘torch,’ is used in the plur. for ‘lightnings’ (Exo_20:18); a word of uncertain meaning, châzĭz (Job_28:26; Job_38:35, Zec_10:1), is evidently related to thunder, and should probably in each case be tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘thunder-cloud.’ The usual Heb. word is bârâq, Gr. astrapç (2Sa_22:16 etc., Mat_24:27 etc.). It is used fig. for the glitter of bright metal (Deu_32:41, lit. ‘the lightning of my sword’; cf. Eze_21:10, Nah_3:3, Hab_3:11), and for the glittering weapon itself (Job_20:25). It is suggested, either by the flash of polished metal, or by the speed of the chariot (Nah_2:4). Lightning is associated with the appearance of God (Exo_19:16 etc.), and He alone can control it (Job_38:33, Psa_18:14). With lightnings as with arrows, God scatters His enemies (Psa_144:5 etc.). A radiant face (Dan_10:8), and gleaming garments (Mat_28:3), are like lightning. There is vivid suggestiveness in the comparison of Satan’s overthrow with the descent of lightning (Luk_10:18). Cf. the name Barak (Jdg_4:6), with the Carthaginian Barca.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


lı̄t?ning (בּרק, bārāḳ, חזיז, ḥăzı̄z; ἀστραπή, astrapḗ): Lightning is caused by the discharge of electricity between clouds or between clouds and the earth. In a thunder-storm there is a rapid gathering of particles of moisture into clouds and forming of large drops of rain. This gathers with it electric potential until the surface of the cloud (or the enlarged water particles) is insufficient to carry the charge, and a discharge takes place, producing a brilliant flash of light and the resulting thunder-clap. Thunder-storms are common in Syria and Palestine during the periods of heavy rain in the spring and fall and are often severe. Lightning is usually accompanied by heavy rainfall or by hail, as at the time of the plague of hail (Exo_9:24). See HAIL.
In the Scriptures it is used: (a) indicating the power of God: The power of God is shown in His command of the forces of Nature, and He is the only one who knows the secrets of Nature: ?He made ... a way for the lightning? (Job_28:26); ?He directeth ... his lightning? (Job_37:3 the King James Version); ?Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go?? (Job_38:35); ?Ask ye of Yahweh ... that maketh lightnings? (Zec_10:1). See also Psa_18:14; Psa_97:4; Psa_135:7; Job_36:32; Jer_10:13; (b) figuratively and poetically: David sings of Yahweh, ?He sent ... lightnings manifold, and discomfited them? (Psa_18:14); used for speed: ?The chariots ... run like the lightnings? (Nah_2:4): ?His arrow shall go forth as the lightning? (Zec_9:14); ?The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning? (Eze_1:14). The coming of the kingdom is described by Jesus as the shining of the lightning from one part of heaven to another, even ?from the east unto the west? (Mat_24:27; Luk_17:24); (c) meaning bright or shining: Daniel in his vision saw a man and ?his face (was) as the appearance of lightning? (Dan_10:6). See also Rev_4:5; Rev_8:5; Rev_16:18.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Zec_9:14 (b) This is a severe picture of GOD's avenging wrath and righteous judgment on His enemies. No one knows where it will strike, nor when, nor what damage will be the result.

Luk_10:18 (a) The disciples thought they had conquered Satan. Our Lord is assuring them that this is not the case. Satan occupies heavenly places. He strikes in people's lives wherever and whenever he pleases. No one can put Satan down nor conquer him. He daily attacks people where and when he pleases. This passage does not refer to Satan's fall from Heaven, but rather to his daily attacks on the people on earth.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


Lightning
(properly בָּרָק, barak', Dan_10:6; collectively lightninqs, Psa_144:6; 2Sa_22:15; Ezra 1:13; plur. Job_38:35; Psa_18:15; Psa_77:19, etc.; trop. the brightness of a glittering sword, Eze_21:15, Deu_32:41, etc.; (ἀστραπή, Mat_24:27; Mat_28:3; Luk_10:18; Luk_11:36; Luk_17:24; Rev_4:5; Rev_8:5; Rev_11:19; Rev_16:18; once בָּזָק, baza'c, a flash of lightning, Eze_1:14; less properly אוֹר, dr, light, Job_37:3; Job_37:11; לִפַּיד, lalppid', a burning torch, Exo_20:18; fig. חָזַיז, chaziz', an arrow, i.e., ethunder-fash, Zec_10:1; comp. Job_28:26; Job_38:25). Travelers state that in Syria lightnings are frequent in the autumnal months. Seldom a night passes without a great deal of lightning, which is sometimes accompanied by thunder and sometimes not. A squall of wind and clouds of (dust are the uasual forerunners of the first rains. SEE PALESTINE.
To these natural phenomena the sacred writers frequently allude. In directing their energies, "the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet; the mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence; his fury is poured out like fire. and the rocks are thrown down by him" (Nah_1:3-6). The terrors of the divine wrath are often represented by thundler and lightning; and thunder, on account of its awful impression on the minds of mortals. is also spoken of in Scripture as the "voice of the Lord" (Psa_135:7; Psa_144:6; 2Sa_22:15; Job_28:26; Job_37:4-5; Job_38:25; Job_40:9; Zec_9:14; Rev_4:5; Rev_16:18-21). On account of the fire attending their light, they are the symbols of edicts enforced with destruction to those who oppose them, or who hinder others from giving obedience to them (Psa_144:6; Zec_9:14; Psa_18:14; Rev_4:5; Rev_16:18). Thunders and lightnings, when they proceed from the throne of God (as in Rev_4:5), are fit representations of God's glorious and awful majesty; but whenfire comes down from heaven upon the earth, it expresses some judgment of God on the world (as in Rev_20:9). The voices, thunders, lightnings, and great hail, in Rev_16:18-21, are interpreted expressly of an exceeding great plague, so that men blasphemned on account of it (see Wemyss, Symb. Dict. s.v.). SEE THUNDER.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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