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Gender Masculine
Scripts ððð(Ugaritic) ðððð(Eblaite Cuneiform)
Other Forms FormsReshef
Meaning & History
Derived from Semitic ršf meaning "to absorb, to consume" or "to burn" (descended into Hebrew as ךשף (reshef) "burning heat" or "plague"). This was the name of a Canaanite and Semitic deity of plague, the underworld, and war.