Word

שַׂהֲרֹן

sahărôn · H7720 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Thing

Necklace, chain, cordJewelry, ornaments17 verses

Meanings

crescents

Ornaments in the curved shape of the waxing or waning moon

Examples
Judges 8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise up yourself, and attack us; for as the man, so is his strength.” So Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent amulets which were on their camels’ necks.
Judges 8:26 The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, apart from the crescent amulets, the ear pendants, and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and apart from the neck chains that were on their camels’ necks.
Isaiah 3:18 On that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments,

How it’s used In 3 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מֶלֶךְking 1
צַוָּארneck 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1
סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 1

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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Near synonyms 1 word

חֶלְיָה chelyâh · H2484 · ornament, jewel: Both denote jewelry or ornament. The other word is specified as an ornament shaped like a round tire, such as the moon, while שַׂהֲרֹן (sahărôn, H7720) is the more general "jewel."

Semantic domains 1 entry

Jewellery001003001001011: The word names a moon-shaped ornament worn as jewelry, as in Judges 8:21's "crescent amulets which were on their camels' necks" and Isaiah 3:18's list of women's ornaments, "crescent ornaments."

Word family 3 words

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

סַהַר çahar · H5469 · roundness · 1×סֹהַר çôhar · H5470 · prison · 8×שַׂהֲרֹןsahărôn · H7720

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7720. saharon [שַׂהֲרוֺן] noun [masculine] moon, or crescent; — only plural…

H7720. saharon
[שַׂהֲרוֺן] noun [masculine] moon, or crescent; — only plural הַשַּׂהֲרֹנִים of (non-Israelite) ornaments of camels Jdg 8:21, kings Jdg 8:26, women Isa 3:18, ᵐ5 μηνίσκοι ᵑ9 (Isa 3:18) lunulae; on crescent as ornament see Dozyii. 760 LaneEgypt.ii.314 PerlesAnal. 79, compare Frä58.
שׂוֺא see נשׂא a. I, II. שׂוּג see I, II. סוּג.
שׂוּחַ Gen 24:63 see I. שׁוּט.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Jewellery3 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