Ebony
הָבְנִיStrong’s H1894hoven (ho-ven)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Hoven is the Hebrew word usually translated “ebony”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.”
Meaning
- Ebony
How it's translated
- and ebony 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
הָבְנִי hoven · ebony
ebony
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ebony” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EB'ONY, noun
[Latin ebenus.]
A species of hard, heavy and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss; said to be brought from Madagascar. The most usual color is black, red or green. The best is a jet black, free from veins and rind, very heavy, astringent and of an acrid pungent taste. On burning coals it yields an agreeable perfume, and when green it readily takes fire from its abundance of fat. It is wrought into toys, and used for mosaic and inlaid work.
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.