Senses
1. brimstone, sulfur — A combustible mineral substance (sulfur/brimstone) associated in Scripture with divine judgment and catastrophic destruction. Used of the rain upon Sodom (Gen 19:24), the punishment of the wicked (Job 18:15, Ps 11:6), and prophetic imagery of God's consuming fire (Isa 30:33, 34:9, Ezek 38:22). All multilingual glosses uniformly point to the same chemical substance: Arabic kibrIt, Hindi gandhak, Korean yuhwang, Spanish azufre. 7×
AR["إِلَى-كِبْرِيتٍ","كِبْرِيتًا","كِبْرِيتٌ","كِبْرِيتٍ","وَ-كِبْرِيتًا","وَكِبْرِيتٌ"]·ben["এবং-গন্ধক","ও-গন্ধক","গন্ধক","গন্ধক-এর","গন্ধকে"]·DE["Schwefel","[גפרית]","[וגפרית]","[לגפרית]","sulfur","und-sulfur"]·EN["and-brimstone","and-sulfur","brimstone","burns","into-brimstone","sulfur"]·FR["[גפרית]","[לגפרית]","brimstone","et-soufre","sulfur","גפרית"]·heb["גופרית","גפרית","ו-גופרית","ל-גופרית"]·HI["और-गंधक","गंधक","गंधक-का","गंधक-में","गनधक"]·ID["Belerang","belerang","dan-belerang","menjadi-belerang"]·IT["[גפרית]","[וגפרית]","[לגפרית]","brimstone","sulfur"]·jav["dados-walirang","lan-walirang","saha-wèlèrang","walirang","welirang","wlirang"]·KO["그리고-유황-과","그리고-유황을","에-유황으로","유황과","유황의","유황이"]·PT["e-enxofre","em-enxofre","enxofre"]·RU["Сера","в-серу","и-сера","и-серу","сера","серу","серы"]·ES["Azufre","azufre","en-azufre","y-azufre"]·SW["kiberiti","kufua","kuwa-kiberiti","na-kiberiti","wa-kiberiti"]·TR["kukurdun","kukurt-olacak","kükürt","ve-kükürt"]·urd["اور-گندھک","گندھک","گندھک-میں","گندھک-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† גָּפְרִית n.f. brimstone (Aramaic גּוּפְרִיתָא, also כבריתא, כובריתא, ܟܶܒܪܝܺܬܳܐ, ܟܽܒܪܝܺܬܳܐ; Arabic كِبْرِيت (certainly foreign wd.); der. from (כֹּפֶר), גֹּפֶר by Thes RobGes, cf. Di Gn 6:14; i.e. pitch, and then other combustibles, especially sulphur; Lagl.c. thinks from Bactr. vohûkereti)—גָּפְרִית Gn 19:24 + 6 times—brimstone, after הִמְטִיר Gn 19:24 (J), fig. of judgment ψ 11:6 Ez 38:22 (in…