Lexical Summary bahat: perhaps porphyry Original Word: בּהטTransliteration: bahat Phonetic Spelling: (bah'-hat) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps porphyry Meaning: white marble, alabaster Strong's Concordance red marble From an unused root (probably meaning to glisten); white marble or perhaps alabaster -- red (marble). Brown-Driver-Briggs H923. bahat בַּ֫הַט noun [masculine] a costly stone, perhaps porphyry (compare Egyptian behiti, behet, behat BrugschDict. v. 438 DümichenGeschichte 167 f. WendelAltäg. Bau- u. Edelsteine (1888) 77 f.; ᵐ5 has σμαραγδίτης), Esther 1:6 ב וְסֹחָ֑רֶת׳ִרצֲפַת וְדַר וָֿשֵׁשׁ עַל upon a pavement of porphyry and marble, etc. |
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