8143. shenhabbim
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shenhabbim: ivory
Original Word: שֶׁנְהַבִּים
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: shenhabbim
Phonetic Spelling: (shen-hab-beem')
Short Definition: ivory

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
ivory
NASB Translation
ivory (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 SchrZMG xxvii (1873), 709 COT1Kings, 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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