Word

שְׁבוּ

shᵉbûw · H7618 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. agate

    (Semi-)Precious stone with various curved layers of different colors; possibly variety of chalcedony: agate

    Examples

    Exodus 28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

    Exodus 39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

How it’s used

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

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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Exodus 28:19 and 39:12 both list "an agate" in the third row of stones on the priestly breastpiece, directly attesting this word's sense of a precious gemstone.
Word family 3 words

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7618. shebo שְׁבוֺ noun [feminine] a precious stone (relation to above √ dubious; =…
H7618. shebo
שְׁבוֺ noun [feminine] a precious stone (relation to above √ dubious; = Assyrian šubû ᵑ9 ᵐ5 agate); — Exo 28:19=Exo 39:12 (+אַחְלָ֑מָה לֶשֶׁם,).

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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