re.sheph denotes fire-like flashes or flying flame, and in disaster scenes it is associated with pestilence and plague.

The attested uses most often occur in imagery of flashes, flame, or radiance; the plural forms stand in clauses about flying flame, flashes of fire, flashes striking livestock, and radiance. Two singular occurrences instead stand in disaster clauses where the APB describes famine, pestilence, destruction, and plague.

1. Fire-like flashes and radiant flame · dominant

   Plural forms occur in scenes of luminous or fiery imagery: in Job 5:7 the APB renders “the sons of the flame fly upward,” in Psalm 78:48 it speaks of livestock given “to the flashes,” and in Song of Songs 8:6 it says, “its flashes are flashes of fire, a flame.” Psalm 76:4 also has a plural construct form in a verse the APB renders “You are radiant,” though the translation does not isolate the term's contribution.

   Job 5:7Psalm 76:4Psalm 78:48Song of Songs 8:6
2. Destructive outbreak in judgment scenes · common

   The singular form appears in calamity settings. In Deuteronomy 32:24 the APB renders a sequence of famine, pestilence, bitter destruction, beasts, and serpents; in Habakkuk 3:5 it renders “Pestilence walks before him, and plague comes out at his feet.”

   Deuteronomy 32:24Habakkuk 3:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the relevant clauses with varied imagery and disaster language, including “flame,” “flashes,” “pestilence,” and “plague.” Because it is a translation of whole verses, these English expressions cannot be assigned mechanically to each occurrence.