Jacinth
לֶ֫שֶׁםStrong’s H3958leshem (le-shem)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Leshem is the Hebrew word usually translated “jacinth”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.”
Meaning
- A precious stonea precious stone in the high priest's breast-plate
How it's translated
- a jacinth 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
לֶ֫שֶׁם leshem · jacinth
1) a precious stone 1a) a precious stone in the high priest's breast-plate 1a1) probably jacinth or ligure
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “jacinth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JA'CINTH, noun
[a different orthography of Hyacinth.]
- A genus of plants. [See Hyacinth.]
- A species of pellucid gems. [See Hyacinth.] Revelation 21:20
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.