Ivory
שֶׁנְהַבִּיםStrong’s H8143shenhabbim (shen-hab-bim)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shenhabbim is the Hebrew word usually translated “ivori”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.”
Meaning
- Ivory
How it's translated
- ivori 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁנְהַבִּים shenhabbim · ivory
ivory
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ivory” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
I'VORY, noun
[Latin ebur.]
The tusk of an elephant, a hard, solid substance, of a fine white color. This tooth is sometimes six or seven feet in length, hollow from the base to a certain highth, and filled with a compact medullary substance, seeming to contain a great number of glands. The ivory of Ceylon and Achem does not become yellow in wearing, and hence is preferred to that of Guinea.
All definitions and other forms of “ivory”
I'VORY, adjective
Consisting of ivory; as an ivory comb.
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.