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אֹדֶם

ʼôdem · H124 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. ruby, carnelian

    (Semi-)Precious stone of a red color, possibly ruby or carnelian

    Examples

    Exodus 28:17 “And you shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

    Exodus 39:10 And they mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

    Ezekiel 28:13 “You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
σάρδιος sárdios · G4556 · sardian, i.e. the gem so called
Greek translation equivalent for the Hebrew gemstone term, denoting the same precious stone (sardius/carnelian) in both Testaments.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Gemstones001003001001009
אֹדֶם names the ruby or sardius, the first stone in the row set into the priestly breastpiece.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָדַם ʼâdam · H119 · to be red, to be ruddy, to paint red · 10×אָדָם ʼâdâm · H120 · human, humankind, human being(s) · 551×אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh · H127 · ground, earth, land · 225×אָדֹם ʼâdôm · H122 · red · 9×אֲדַמְדָּם ʼădamdâm · H125 · reddish · 6×אֹדֶםʼôdem · H124אַדְמֹנִי ʼadmônîy · H132 · red, ruddy · 3×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H124. odem אֹ֫דֶם noun [feminine] carnelian (from redness; ᵐ5 σάρδιον; on formative…
H124. odem
אֹ֫דֶם noun [feminine] carnelian (from redness; ᵐ5 σάρδιον; on formative compare LagBN 144) Exo 28:17; Exo 39:10 (P) Eze 28:13.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Gemstones3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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