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# נֹפֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5306

**ruby** — used 4 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/1504/5306/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a precious stone which Tyre gained by trade Ez 27:16 (where נ׳ doubted by Berthol, queried by Toy Hpt), cf. 28:13 (symbol. of wealth and honour of king of Tyre); in high priest’s breastplate Ex 28:18; 39:11. Perhaps = ruby or carbuncle 𝔊 Joseph. ἄνθραξ, 𝔙 carbunculus, cf. Di Ex Kau Ex Sgfr Ezek Co Berthol; 𝔗 AV emerald.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: turquoise (2); \[was\] a turquoise (1); \[will be\] a turquoise (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.18/#tree)

וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשֵּׁנִ֑י נֹ֥פֶךְ סַפִּ֖יר וְיָהֲלֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) second \[will.be\].a.turquoise a.sapphire and an.emerald

*JPS 1917:* and the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald;

[Exodus 39:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.11/#tree)

וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשֵּׁנִ֑י נֹ֥פֶךְ סַפִּ֖יר וְיָהֲלֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) second \[was\].a.turquoise a.sapphire and an.emerald

*JPS 1917:* And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5306.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5306/): 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).