Lexicon shenhabbim: ivory Original Word: שֶׁנְהַבִּיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shenhabbim Phonetic Spelling: (shen-hab-beem') Short Definition: ivory NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionivory NASB Translationivory (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שֶׁנְהַבִּים apparently noun masculine [plural], in list of Solomon's imports, 1 Kings 10:22 2Chronicles 9:21, AV RV ivory (elsewhere שֵׁן alone); hence הַבִּים = elephants according to Ges (in Thes) Ew Hi Schr ZMG xxvii (1873), 709 COT 1Kings, compare ᵐ5 (2 Chronicles, and A in 1Kings) ὀδόντων ἐλεφαντίνων, ᵑ9 (in 1Kings) dentes elephantorum, ᵑ7; but this very dubious; < read RöThes Th Be CheEB 1154 שֵׁן (וְ)הָבְנִים ivory (and) ebony (Ezekiel 27:15). Strong's ivory From shen and the plural apparently of a foreign word; probably, tooth of elephants, i.e. Ivory tusk -- ivory. see HEBREW shen |
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