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# לֶשֶׁם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3958

**gem** — 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

gem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3958/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a precious stone in h. p.’s breast-plate Ex 28:19; 39:12 (√ and meaning dub.; 𝔊 λιγύριον, JosephAnt. iii, 7, 5 λίγυρος, 𝔙 ligurius, and this (= λυγκούριον, lyncurion?) compared with carbuncle PlinNH viii. 57 (38); identif. with amber Demostratus in PlinNH xxxvii.11(2), or with jacinth (Rev 21:20) Braunde Vest. Sacerd. ii. 14 WinerRWB i. 332; cf. further, Di Ex 28:19).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] a jacinth (1); \[will be\] a jacinth (1).

## 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/3958.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3958/): 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).