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# תַּרְשִׁישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8658

**yellow jasper** — used 7 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

yellow jasper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8658/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּרְשִׁישׁ: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8658/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a precious stone, perhaps yellow jasper, or other gold-coloured stone (𝔊 Ex 28:20; 39:13 χρυσόλιθος, so JosAnt. iii, 7, 5 \[168\], v. PetrieHast. DB Stones, Precious MyresEncy. Bib. Id. § 17 Dr Dn 10:6);—כְּעֵין ת׳ Ez 1:16; כְּעֵין אֶבֶן ת׳ 10:9; in list of gems 28:13; Ex 28:20; 39:13; in sim. of resplendent body Dn 10:6, cf.Ct 5:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: chrysolite (3); of chrysolite (2); \[was\] a chrysolite (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.14/#tree)

יָדָיו֙ גְּלִילֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מְמֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ מֵעָיו֙ עֶ֣שֶׁת שֵׁ֔ן מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶת סַפִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* hands his \[are\].rods of.gold filled with (the) chrysolite parts his.lower \[are\].a.plate of.ivory covered sapphires

*JPS 1917:* His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires.

[Exodus 39:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.13/#tree)

וְהַטּוּר֙ הָֽרְבִיעִ֔י תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ שֹׁ֖הַם וְיָשְׁפֵ֑ה מֽוּסַבֹּ֛ת מִשְׁבְּצ֥וֹת זָהָ֖ב בְּמִלֻּאֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) fourth \[was\].a.chrysolite an.onyx and a.jasper \[they.were\].surrounded filigree.settings of.gold in settings their

*JPS 1917:* And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were inclosed in fittings of gold in their settings.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8658/): 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).