Jasper
יַהֲלֹםStrong’s H3095yahalom (ya-ha-lom)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yahalom is the Hebrew word usually translated “emerald”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.”
Meaning
- A precious stone (known for its hardness)perhaps the jasper, onyx, or diamond
How it's translated
- and an emerald 2
- and emerald 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 39:11And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- 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
יַהֲלֹם yahalom · jasper
1) a precious stone (known for its hardness) 1a) perhaps the jasper, onyx, or diamond
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “jasper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
J'ASPER, noun
[Latin iaspis.]
A mineral of the siliceous kind, and of several varieties. It is less hard than flint or even than common quartz, but gives fire with steel. It is entirely opake, or sometimes feebly translucent at the edges, and it presents almost every variety of color. Its varieties are common jasper striped jasper Egyptian jasper etc. It admits of an elegant polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff-boxes, etc.
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.