Agate
שְׁבוֹStrong’s H7618shevu (she-vu)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shevu is the Hebrew word usually translated “agate”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.”
Meaning
- A precious stone (in the high priest's breastplate)probably an agate
How it's translated
- an agate 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
שְׁבוֹ shevu · agate
1) a precious stone (in the high priest's breastplate) 1a) probably an agate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “agate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AGA'TE, adverb
[a and gate.]
On the way; going. obsolete
All definitions and other forms of “agate”
AG'ATE, noun
[Gr. so called, says Pliny, 34, 10, because found near a river of that name in Sicily. So also Solinus and Isidore. But Bochart, with more probability, deduces it from the Punic and Hebrew, and with a different prefix, spotted. The word is used,, to describe the speckled and spotted cattle of Laban and Jacob.]
AG'ATE, noun
An instrument used by goldwire drawers, so called from the agate in the middle of it.
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.