שֹׁהַם
shôham · H7718 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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onyx
(Semi-)Precious stone with straight layers of a white color, alternating with black, brown, or red; possibly variety of chalcedony: onyx
ExamplesExodus 25:7 onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
Exodus 28:9 “And you shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,
Exodus 28:20 and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָקָרprecious 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוּרrow 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
7 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶבֶןstone 7
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 2 entries
- Gemstones001003001001009
- The word names the onyx stone, used for the ephod's setting-stones and engraved with the names of Israel's tribes, as in Exodus 28:9 and Exodus 25:7.
- Names of People003001007
- This domain belongs to this word's homograph, the personal name Shoham (a Merarite Levite named after the gemstone, 1 Chronicles 24:27), rather than to the common noun "onyx" itself.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7718. shoham I. שֹׁ֫הַם noun masculineJob 28:16 a gem, identification dubious, Vrss…
I. שֹׁ֫הַם noun masculineJob 28:16 a gem, identification dubious, Vrss vary; onyx or chrysoprasus RiHWB 2, 336 f., onyx TaylorHast. DB iii. 624, beryl RidgewayEncy. Bib. 545, malachite Myresib. 4808, etc.; compare also DrGen 2:12 (√ unknown; perhaps loan-word, compare Assyrian sâmtu DlWB 488); — הַשּׁ ׳אֶבֶן Gen 2:12 (J; +הַבְּדֹלַח), in land „avilah; שׁ ׳אַבְנֵי Exo 25:7; Exo 28:9; Exo 35:9, Exo 35:27; Exo 39:6 (all P), 1Ch 29:2; אֶבֶן omitted Eze 28:13; Exo 28:20; Exo 39:13 (both P; all in lists of gems); ׳שׁ וְסַמִּיר יָקָר Job 28:16.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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