אֶקְדָּח
ʼeqdâch · H688 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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precious stone, jewel
Exact meaning unsure: precious stone, probably with a fiery glow
ExamplesIsaiah 54:12 “Moreover, I will make your battlements of rubies, And your gates of crystal, And your entire wall of precious stones.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶבֶןstone 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Gemstones001003001001009
- אֶקְדָּח names a precious stone, likely a carbuncle or sparkling gem, as the rubies with which Isaiah pictures Zion's battlements adorned.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H688. eqdach אֶקְדָּח noun [masculine] perhaps fiery glow, sparkle; אֶקְדָּֽת אַבְנֵי Isa…
אֶקְדָּח noun [masculine] perhaps fiery glow, sparkle; אֶקְדָּֽת אַבְנֵי Isa 54:12 i.e. carbuncles (?); — ᵐ5 λίθους κρυστάλλου, ᵑ9 lapides sculptos Aq Theod Sym.
קדם (√ of following; be before, in front, compare Assyrian ‡udmu front, former time; Arabic precede (so Ethiopic ), IV, see be bold and foremost in attack (קָדַם
1a); Sabean קדם begin HomChreat, 126, march forth, advance, CISiv, No 79, 1. 9 SabDenkmNo. 9, 1.2.4.6.7.8.9, קדמ(הוׅ front CISiv, No. 276, 1.2; Phoenician כקדם as formerly (?); Old Aramaic קדם before, so Palmyrene, Nabataean; Biblical Aramaic, קֳדָם ᵑ7 before; Syriac precede; Late Hebrew קָדַם be in front).
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
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