Sardius
אֹ֫דֶםStrong’s H0124odem (o-dem)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Odem is the Hebrew word usually translated “ruby”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.”
Meaning
- Ruby, carnelian (redness)precious stone
How it's translated
- a ruby 2
- ruby 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 39:10And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
- Ezekiel 28:13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Hebrew dictionary
אֹ֫דֶם odem · sardius
1) ruby, carnelian (redness) 1a) precious stone
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ruby” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RU'BY, noun
[Latin rubeo, to be red.]
- A precious stone; a mineral of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red; but its parts vary in color, and hence it is called sapphire ruby or orange red, and by some vermeille or rubicel.
- Redness; red color.
- Any thing red.
- A blain; a blotch; a carbuncle. [The ruby is said to be the stone called by Pliny a carbuncle.]
All definitions and other forms of “ruby”
RU'BY, verb transitive
To make red.
RU'BY, adjective
Of the color of the ruby; red; as ruby lips.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.