Topaz
פִּטְדָהStrong’s H6357pitdah (pit-dah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pitdah is the Hebrew word usually translated “topaz” and “topaz of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.”
Meaning
- Topaz or chrysolitea precious stone
How it's translated
- a topaz 2
- topaz of 1
- topaz 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Job 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 39:10And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
- Job 28:19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
- 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
פִּטְדָה pitdah · topaz
1) topaz or chrysolite 1a) a precious stone
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “topaz” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TO'PAZ, noun
[Gr.]
A mineral, said to be so called from Topazos, a small isle in the Arabic gulf, where the Romans obtained a stone which they called by this name, but which is the chrysolite of the moderns. The topaz is of a yellowish color. It sometimes occurs in masses, but more generally crystallized in rectangular octahedrons. topaz is valued as a gem or precious stone, and is used in jewelry. It consists of silex, fluoric acid and alumin, in the following proportions; alumin 57 parts, silex 34, and fluoric acid 7 or 8.
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.