Word

סֹחֵרֶת

çôchêreth · H5508 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. stone, mineral

    Some type of costly stone, used for making pavements

    Examples

    Esther 1:6 There were curtains of fine white and violet linen held by cords of fine purple linen on silver rings and marble columns, and couches of gold and silver on a mosaic floor of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and mineral stones.

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In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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The word names black marble, one of the decorative stones used in the pavement of Ahasuerus's palace courtyard (Esther 1:6), tying the word to this specific ornamental stone.
Word family 7 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5508. sochereth [סֹחֶ֫רֶת] noun feminine a stone used (with marble) in paving (compare…
H5508. sochereth
[סֹחֶ֫רֶת] noun feminine a stone used (with marble) in paving (compare Assyrian si—ru, a precious stone, DlHWB 495); — סֹחָ֑רֶת Est 1:6.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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