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# אֹדֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H124

**carnelian** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

carnelian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/124/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹ֫דֶם: carnelian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/124/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] carnelian (fr. redness; 𝔊 σάρδιον; on format. cf. LagBN 144) Ex 28:17; 39:10 (P) Ez 28:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of a ruby (2); ruby (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 39:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.10/#tree)

וַיְמַלְאוּ־ב֔וֹ אַרְבָּעָ֖ה ט֣וּרֵי אָ֑בֶן ט֗וּר אֹ֤דֶם פִּטְדָה֙ וּבָרֶ֔קֶת הַטּ֖וּר הָאֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and they.filled in it four rows of.stone\[s\] \[was\].a.row of.a.ruby a.topaz and a.beryl the row (the) one

*JPS 1917:* And they set in it four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd was the first row.

[Exodus 28:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.17/#tree)

וּמִלֵּאתָ֥ בוֹ֙ מִלֻּ֣אַת אֶ֔בֶן אַרְבָּעָ֖ה טוּרִ֣ים אָ֑בֶן ט֗וּר אֹ֤דֶם פִּטְדָה֙ וּבָרֶ֔קֶת הַטּ֖וּר הָאֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.fill in it a.setting of.stone\[s\] four rows stone \[will.be\].a.row of.a.ruby a.topaz and a.beryl the row (the) one

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd shall be the first row;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/124.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/124/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).