לפיד

Hebrew[edit]

Root
ל־פ־ד (l-p-d)

לַפִּיד • (lapíd) m (plural indefinite לַפִּידִים, plural construct לַפִּידֵי־)

a torch
- 1936 December 10, “אנו נושאים לפידים (anú nos'ím lápidim, “We carry torches”)”, performed by Aaron Zeev:
  אָנוּ נוֹשְׂאִים לַפִּידִים / בְּ לֵילוֹת אֲפֵלִים.
  'ánu nos'ím lapidím / b'léylot 'afelím.
  We carry torches / in foggy nights.
pot, particularly one in which light is carried

H3940 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Klein, Ernest (1987) “לַפִּיד”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 304b
Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 715a
“לפיד” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language