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# שֹׁהַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7718

**a gem** — used 11 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

a gem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7718/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁ֫הַם: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7718/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 28:16 a gem, identif. dubious, Vrss vary; onyx or chrysoprasus RiHWB 2, 336 f. onyx TaylorHast. DB iii. 624, beryl RidgewayEncy. Bib. 545 malachite Myresib. 4808, etc.; cf. also Dr Gn 2:12 (√ unknown; perhaps loan-word, cf. Assyrian sâmtu DlWB 438);—אֶבֶן הַשּׁ׳ Gn 2:12 (J; + הַבְּדֹלַח), in land Ḥavilah; אַבְנֵי שׁ׳ Ex 25:7; 28:9; 35:9, 27; 39:6 (all P), 1 Ch 29:2; אֶבֶן om. Ez 28:13; Ex 28:20; 39:13 (both P; all in lists of gems); שׁ׳ יָקָר וְסַפִּיר Jb 28:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of onyx (4); onyx (3); an onyx (2).

## In the verses

[Job 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.16/#tree)

לֹֽא־תְ֭סֻלֶּה בְּכֶ֣תֶם אוֹפִ֑יר בְּשֹׁ֖הַם יָקָ֣ר וְסַפִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be.paid in.(the) gold of.Ophir in onyx precious and sapphire

*JPS 1917:* It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

[Exodus 25:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.7/#tree)

אַבְנֵי־שֹׁ֕הַם וְאַבְנֵ֖י מִלֻּאִ֑ים לָאֵפֹ֖ד וְלַחֹֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* stones of.onyx and stones of.setting(s) for the ephod and for the breastpiece

*JPS 1917:* onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7718.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7718/): 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).