hebrew #3958 - לֶשֶׁם leshem ((a precious stone) perhaps amber or jacinth)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance a gem, perhaps the jacinth From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a gem, perhaps the jacinth -- ligure. Englishman's Concordance 1) a precious stone 1a) a precious stone in the high priest’s breast-plate 1a1) probably jacinth or ligure Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root of uncertain meaning Same Word by TWOT Number: 1130 Brown-Driver-Briggs I. לֶ֫שֶׁםnoun [masculine]a precious stone in high priest's breast-plateExodus 28:19; Exodus 39:12 (√ and meaning dubious; ᵐ5λιγύριον, JosephAnt. iii. 7, 5 λίγυρος, ᵑ9ligurius, and this (=λυγκούριον, lyncurion ?) compared with carbuncle PlinNH viii. 57 -38; identification with amber Demostratus in PlinNH xxxvii 11(2), or with jacinth (Revelation 21:20) BraunDe Vest. Sacerd. ii. 14 WinerRWBi. 332; compare further, DiExodus 28:19). Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 3958. לֶ֫שֶׁם (leshem) — 2 OccurrencesExodus 28:19 Exodus 39:12 |