Lexical Summary leshem: (a precious stone) perhaps amber or jacinth Original Word: לֶשֶׁםTransliteration: leshem Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-shem) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: (a precious stone) perhaps amber or jacinth Meaning: (a precious stone) perhaps amber or jacinth Strong's Concordance a gem, perhaps the jacinthFrom an unused root of uncertain meaning; a gem, perhaps the jacinth -- ligure. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3958. leshem I. לֶ֫שֶׁם noun [masculine] a precious stone in high priest's breast-plate Exodus 28:19; 39:12 (√ and meaning dubious; ᵐ5 λιγύριον, JosephAnt. iii. 7, 5 λίγυρος, ᵑ9 ligurius, 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). |
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