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# כַּדְכֹּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3539

**ruby** — 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

ruby [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3539/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּדְכֹּד: ruby [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3539/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a precious stone, perhaps ruby (from sparkle?; Aramaic ‖ is כַּדְכְּדָנָא); כ׳ Ez 27:16 as article of commerce; כַּדְכֹד Is 54:12 fig. in promise to Zion.

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: ruby (2).

## 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.

[Ezekiel 27:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.16/#tree)

אֲרָ֥ם סֹחַרְתֵּ֖ךְ מֵרֹ֣ב מַעֲשָׂ֑יִךְ בְּ֠נֹפֶךְ אַרְגָּמָ֨ן וְרִקְמָ֤ה וּבוּץ֙ וְרָאמֹ֣ת וְכַדְכֹּ֔ד נָתְנ֖וּ בְּעִזְבוֹנָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* Aram \[was\].your trader from the.abundance your.products your for turquoise purple and multicolored.material and fine.linen and corals and ruby they.exchanged for wares your

*JPS 1917:* Aram was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy wealth; they traded for thy wares with carbuncles, purple, and richly woven work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3539.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3539/): 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).