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שַׁיִשׁ

shayish · H7893 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. white marble

    A hard, shiny rock formed from limestone, often streaked with colors, used for building

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 29:2 “Now with all my ability I have provided for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, wood for the things of wood, onyx stones and inlaid stones, stones of antimony and stones of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster in abundance.

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

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
Stone001002005016
The noun for marble among the precious materials David provided for the temple; the sampled excerpt lists onyx, inlaid stones, and alabaster "in abundance" without singling out this exact stone by name, but the general domain of costly building stone is directly shown (1 Chronicles 29:2).
Word family 4 words

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

מָשָׁה mâshâh · H4871 · to draw out · 3×שֵׁשׁ shêsh · H8336 · six, sixty · 41×מֶשִׁי meshîy · H4897 · expensive cloth · 2×שַׁיִשׁshayish · H7893
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7893. shayish שַׁ֫יִשׁ noun [masculine] alabaster (foreign word? Late Hebrew id.;…
H7893. shayish
שַׁ֫יִשׁ noun [masculine] alabaster (foreign word? Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic שַׁיְשָׁא , perhaps Assyrian šaššu ); — ׳אַבְנֵישֿׁ 1Ch 29:2 (material of temple); compare PatrickHast. DB MARBLE.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Stone1 occurrence

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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