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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Whirlwind
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suphah, from a root "sweeping away," and searah "tossed about." In "Thy thunder was in the heaven," literally, "in the wheel," i.e. the rotation of the visible heavens phenomenally round the earth, but the Septuagint, the Chaldee, and the Vulgate "in a whirl," whirled about. translated "it was cried unto them whirling"; they were called to put themselves into rapid revolution.
Jehovah speaks the word which sets the machine of providence in motion, "the wheel (cycle) of creation" or "nature"; , ton trochon geneseos, one fourfold wheel, two circles cutting one another at right angles. A "whirlwind" moving on its own axis is not meant in . In "out of the south (literally, chamber, God's unseen regions in the southern hemisphere) cometh the whirlwind" (); the south wind driving before it burning sands comes from the Arabian deserts upon Babylon ().