Ruby
כַּדְכֹּדStrong’s H3539kadkod (kad-kod)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kadkod is the Hebrew word usually translated “ruby”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.”
Meaning
- A precious stone (maybe ruby, agate)
How it's translated
- ruby 1
- and ruby 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
כַּדְכֹּד kadkod · ruby
a precious stone (maybe ruby, agate)
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.