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# אַחְלָמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H306

**amethyst** — used 2 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

amethyst [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/306/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַחְלָ֑מָה: n.f. amethyst [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/306/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. perhaps amethyst (etym. dub.; sub חלם Thes q.v.; HalJAs 7, x. 426 from חלם être fort, solide; Di Kn comp. Talm. חַלְמִית, malva & think of green malachite; DlHA 36 N der. from Aramaic land Aḫamû), amethyst according to 𝔊 𝔙 Josephus; v. also LagGGA 1884, 285, but cf. Di; one of the gems on the ephod Ex 28:19; 39:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an amethyst (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.19/#tree)

וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י לֶ֥שֶׁם שְׁב֖וֹ וְאַחְלָֽמָה׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) third \[will.be\].a.jacinth an.agate and an.amethyst

*JPS 1917:* and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

[Exodus 39:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.12/#tree)

וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י לֶ֥שֶׁם שְׁב֖וֹ וְאַחְלָֽמָה׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) third \[was\].a.jacinth an.agate and an.amethyst

*JPS 1917:* And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/306.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/306/): 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).