Scepter
שַׁרְבִֿיטStrong’s H8275sharvit (shar-vit)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sharvit is the Hebrew word usually translated “scepter of” and “scepter”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.”
Meaning
- Sceptre
- (TWOT) dart, spear
How it's translated
- scepter of 3
- the scepter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 5:2And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
- Esther 8:4Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁרְבִֿיט sharvit · scepter
1) sceptre 2) (TWOT) dart, spear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scepter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCEP'TER, noun
[Latin sceptrum; Gr. from to send or thrust; coinciding with Latin scipio, that is, a shoot or rod.]
- A staff or batoon borne by kings on solemn occasions, as a badge of authority.
- The appropriate ensign of royalty; an ensign of higher antiquity than the crown.
- Royal power or authority; as, to assume the scepter“The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, till Shiloh come” Genesis 49:10
- A constellation.
All definitions and other forms of “scepter”
SCEP'TER, verb transitive
To invest with royal authority, or with the ensign of authority.
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.