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# אֶקְדָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H688

**fiery glow** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fiery glow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/688/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶקְדָּח: fiery glow, sparkle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/688/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] perhaps fiery glow, sparkle; אַבְנֵי אֶקְדָּ֑ח Is 54:12 i.e. carbuncles (?);—𝔊 λίθους κρυστάλλου, 𝔙 lapides sculptos, Aq Theod Sym.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 54:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.12/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י כַּֽדְכֹד֙ שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֔יִךְ וּשְׁעָרַ֖יִךְ לְאַבְנֵ֣י אֶקְדָּ֑ח וְכָל־גְּבוּלֵ֖ךְ לְאַבְנֵי־חֵֽפֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make ruby battlements your and gates your (to) stones of.beryl and all border your (to) stones of.delight

*JPS 1917:* And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/688.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/688/): 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).