Sapphire
סַפִּירStrong’s H5601sappir (sap-pir)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sappir is the Hebrew word usually translated “sapphire” and “sapphires”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.”
Meaning
- Sapphire, lapis lazuli
How it's translated
- sapphire 6
- a sapphire 2
- and sapphire 1
- sapphires 1
- with sapphires 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Job 2
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:18And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- Exodus 39:11And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- Job 28:6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
- Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- Song of Solomon 5:14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
- Isaiah 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Hebrew dictionary
סַפִּיר sappir · sapphire
sapphire, lapis lazuli
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sapphire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SAP'PHIRE, noun
[Latin sapphirus; Gr. to scrape, to shine, to be fair, open, beautiful.]
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.