Alabaster
שַׁ֫יִשׁStrong’s H7893shayish (sha-yish)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shayish is the Hebrew word usually translated “alabaster”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.”
Meaning
- Alabaster
How it's translated
- alabaster 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫יִשׁ shayish · alabaster
alabaster
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “alabaster” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AL'ABASTER, noun
[Latin from Gr.]
All definitions and other forms of “alabaster”
AL'ABASTER, adjective
Made of alabaster or resembling 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.