Thunderbolt
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
(2): ( n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
(3): ( n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
(4): ( n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
( רֶשֶׁ , Risheph, a Flame, or "coal,'" Song of Solomon 8:6; hence lightning; fig. for arrow, Psalms 76:3; Or, Fever, Deuteronomy 32:24). In accordance with thepopular notion, "hot thunderbolts" (Psalm 68:48, רשפי , Sept. Τῷ Πυρί , Vulg. Igni ) means "lightnings." "Then shall the right-aiming thunderbolts go abroad" "(Wisd. 5, 21), Βολίδες Ἀστραπῶν , "flashes" or "strokes of lightning." "Threw stones like thunderbolts" (2: Macc. 1: 16), Συνεκεραύνωσαν . The word conveys an allusion to the mode in which lightning strikes the earth. (See Lightning).
