Lexicon shoham: (a gem) perhaps an onyx Original Word: שֹׁ֫הַםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shoham Phonetic Spelling: (sho'-ham) Short Definition: onyx NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definition(a gem) perhaps an onyx NASB Translationonyx (11).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. שֹׁ֫הַם noun masculineJob 28:16 a gem, identification dubious, Vrss vary; onyx or chrysoprasus Ri HWB 2, 336 f., onyx Taylor Hast. DB iii. 624, beryl Ridgeway Ency. Bib. 545, malachite Myres ib. 4808, etc.; compare also Dr Genesis 2:12 (√ unknown; perhaps loan-word, compare Assyrian sâmtu Dl WB 488); — ׳אֶבֶן הַשּׁ Genesis 2:12 (J; + הַבְּדֹלַח), in land „avilah; ׳אַבְנֵי שׁ Exodus 25:7; Exodus 28:9; Exodus 35:9,27; Exodus 39:6 (all P), 1 Chronicles 29:2; אֶבֶן omitted Ezekiel 28:13; Exodus 28:20; Exodus 39:13 (both P; all in lists of gems); יָקָר וְסַמִּיר ׳שׁ Job 28:16. Strong's onyx From an unused root probably mean to blanch; a gem, probably the beryl (from its pale green color) -- onyx. |
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