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# שֵׁשׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**alabaster** — used 3 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

alabaster [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁשׁ²: n.m. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id.;—עַמּוּדֵי שׁ׳ Ct 5:15 (in fig.), Est 1:6 a, material of pavement v 6 b (v. בַּ֫הַט).—I. שֵׁשׁ, v. שׁדשׁ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of marble (2); marble (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.15/#tree)

שׁוֹקָיו֙ עַמּ֣וּדֵי שֵׁ֔שׁ מְיֻסָּדִ֖ים עַל־אַדְנֵי־פָ֑ז מַרְאֵ֙הוּ֙ כַּלְּבָנ֔וֹן בָּח֖וּר כָּאֲרָזִֽים׃

*Word for word:* legs his \[are\].pillars of.marble founded on bases of.pure.gold appearance his \[is\].like (the) Lebanon \[it.is\].chosen like (the) cedars

*JPS 1917:* His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold; his aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

[Esther 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.6/#tree)

ח֣וּר ׀ כַּרְפַּ֣ס וּתְכֵ֗לֶת אָחוּז֙ בְּחַבְלֵי־ב֣וּץ וְאַרְגָּמָ֔ן עַל־גְּלִ֥ילֵי כֶ֖סֶף וְעַמּ֣וּדֵי שֵׁ֑שׁ מִטּ֣וֹת ׀ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֗סֶף עַ֛ל רִֽצְפַ֥ת בַּהַט־וָשֵׁ֖שׁ וְדַ֥ר וְסֹחָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* white.cloth cotton and violet.material \[was\].held with cords of.fine.linen and purple on rods of.silver and pillars of.marble couches of.gold and silver \[were\].on a.pavement of.porphyry and marble and mother-of-pearl and paving.stone

*JPS 1917:* there were hangings of white, fine cotton, and blue, bordered with cords of fine linen and purple, upon silver rods and pillars of marble; the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of green, and white, and shell, and onyx marble.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b5_5c1_5e9_5c1/): 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).