Lexicon leshem: (a precious stone) perhaps amber or jacinth Original Word: לֶ֫שֶׁםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: leshem Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-shem) Short Definition: jacinth NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definition(a precious stone) perhaps amber or jacinth NASB Translationjacinth (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. לֶ֫שֶׁם noun [masculine] a precious stone in high priest's breast-plate Exodus 28:19; Exodus 39:12 (√ and meaning dubious; ᵐ5 λιγύριον, Joseph Ant. iii. 7, 5 λίγυρος, ᵑ9 ligurius, and this (= λυγκούριον, lyncurion ?) compared with carbuncle Plin NH viii. 57 -38; identification with amber Demostratus in Plin NH xxxvii 11(2), or with jacinth (Revelation 21:20) Braun De Vest. Sacerd. ii. 14 Winer RWBi. 332; compare further, Di Exodus 28:19). Strong's a gem, perhaps the jacinth From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a gem, perhaps the jacinth -- ligure. |
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