Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt
(, risheph, a flame, or coal,’ Son 8:6; hence lightning; fig. for arrow, Psa 76:3; or, fever, Deu 32:24). In accordance with thepopular notion, hot thunderbolts (Psalm 68:48, , Sept. , Vulg. igni) means lightnings. Then shall the right-aiming thunderbolts go abroad (Wisd. 5, 21), , flashes or strokes of lightning. Threw stones like thunderbolts (2: Macc. 1: 16), . The word conveys an allusion to the mode in which lightning strikes the earth. SEE LIGHTNING.