Porphyry
בַּ֫הַטStrong’s H0923bahat (ba-hat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bahat is the Hebrew word usually translated “porphyry”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.”
Meaning
- A costly stone (perhaps porphyry), red marble
How it's translated
- porphyry 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בַּ֫הַט bahat · porphyry
a costly stone (perhaps porphyry), red marble
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “porphyry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POR'PHYRY, noun
[Gr. purple; Latin porphyrites.]
A mineral consisting of a homogeneous ground with crystals of some other mineral imbedded, giving to the mass a speckled complexion. One variety of Egyptian porphyry has a purple ground, whence the name of the species; but the homogeneous ground with imbedded crystals, being all that is essential to porphyry its composition and colors are consequently various.
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.