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# פִּטְדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6357

**topaz** — 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

topaz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6357/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּטְדָה: n.f. topaz chrysolite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6357/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (m. according to AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 108) topaz or chrysolite (according to 𝔊 τοπάζιον, 𝔙 topazius, etc.; prob. foreign word, cf. Skr. pîta (prob. yellow));—named with other precious stones Ez 28:13; Ex 28:17 = 39:10; cstr. פִּטְדַת־כּוּשׁ Jb 28:19.—Vid. PlinNH xxxvii. 8 (32), Houghton in SmDB, Topaz RiHWB, Edelstein.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: a topaz (2); (the) topaz (1); topaz (1).

## In the verses

[Job 28:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.19/#tree)

לֹֽא־יַ֭עַרְכֶנָּה פִּטְדַת־כּ֑וּשׁ בְּכֶ֥תֶם טָ֝ה֗וֹר לֹ֣א תְסֻלֶּֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* not it will.be.comparable.to.it (the).topaz of.Cush in gold pure not it.will.be.paid

*JPS 1917:* The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

[Exodus 39:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.10/#tree)

וַיְמַלְאוּ־ב֔וֹ אַרְבָּעָ֖ה ט֣וּרֵי אָ֑בֶן ט֗וּר אֹ֤דֶם פִּטְדָה֙ וּבָרֶ֔קֶת הַטּ֖וּר הָאֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and they.filled in it four rows of.stone\[s\] \[was\].a.row of.a.ruby a.topaz and a.beryl the row (the) one

*JPS 1917:* And they set in it four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd was the first row.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6357.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6357/): 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).