What is "resheph"

Resheph ( Canaanite ; Eblaite Rašap, Egyptological pronunciation Rešef, Reshef) was a Canaanite deity associated with plague (or a personification of plague). The originally Eblaite and Canaanite deity was adopted in Egypt in the late Bronze Age ( 18th dynasty, late 15th century BC) as a god of horses and chariots.

In Biblical Hebrew, resheph is a noun interpreted as "flame, lightning" but also "burning fever, plague, pestilence".