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# בַּהַט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H923

**porphyry** — 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

porphyry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/923/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּ֫הַט: porphyry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/923/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a costly stone, perhaps porphyry (cf. Egyptian behiti, behet, behat Brugsch Dict. v. 438 Dümichen Gesch. 167 f. WendelAltäg. Bau- u. Edelsteine (1888) 77 f.; 𝔊 has σμαραγδίτης), Est 1:6 עַל רִֽצֲפַת ב׳־וָשֵׁשׁ וְדַר וְסֹחָ֑רֶת upon a pavement of porphyry and marble, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of porphyry (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.6/#tree)

ח֣וּר ׀ כַּרְפַּ֣ס וּתְכֵ֗לֶת אָחוּז֙ בְּחַבְלֵי־ב֣וּץ וְאַרְגָּמָ֔ן עַל־גְּלִ֥ילֵי כֶ֖סֶף וְעַמּ֣וּדֵי שֵׁ֑שׁ מִטּ֣וֹת ׀ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֗סֶף עַ֛ל רִֽצְפַ֥ת בַּהַט־וָשֵׁ֖שׁ וְדַ֥ר וְסֹחָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* white.cloth cotton and violet.material \[was\].held with cords of.fine.linen and purple on rods of.silver and pillars of.marble couches of.gold and silver \[were\].on a.pavement of.porphyry and marble and mother-of-pearl and paving.stone

*JPS 1917:* there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/923.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/923/): 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).