Crescent
שַׂהֲרוֹןStrong’s H7720saharon (sa-ha-ron)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saharon is the Hebrew word usually translated “ornaments”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.”
Meaning
- Moon, crescentas ornament
How it's translated
- the ornaments 2
- and the ornaments 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 8:26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Isaiah 3:18In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
Hebrew dictionary
שַׂהֲרוֹן saharon · crescent
1) moon, crescent 1a) as ornament
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crescent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRESCENT, adjective
[Latin, to grow. See Grow.]
Increasing; growing; as crescent horns.
All definitions and other forms of “crescent”
CRESCENT, noun
- The increasing or new moon, which, when receding from the sun, shows a curving rim of light, terminating in points or horns.
- The figure or likeness of the new moon; as that borne in the Turkish flag or national standard.
- In heraldry, a bearing in the form of a half moon.
- The name of a military order, instituted by Renatus of Anjou, king of Sicily; so called from its symbol or badge, a crescent of gold enameled.
CRESCENT, verb transitive
To form into a crescent
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.