Jasper
תַּרְשִׁישׁStrong’s H8658tarshish (tar-shish)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tarshish is the Hebrew word usually translated “chrysolite” and “like topaz”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Meaning
- A precious stone or semi-precious gemperhaps a chrysolite, yellow jasper, or other yellow coloured stone
How it's translated
- chrysolite 3
- a chrysolite 2
- with chrysolite 1
- like topaz 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 2
- Song of Solomon 1
- Daniel 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:20And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
- Exodus 39:13And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
- Song of Solomon 5:14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
- Ezekiel 1:16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
- Ezekiel 10:9And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
- Ezekiel 28:13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּרְשִׁישׁ tarshish · jasper
1) a precious stone or semi-precious gem 1a) perhaps a chrysolite, yellow jasper, or other yellow coloured stone
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “jasper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
J'ASPER, noun
[Latin iaspis.]
A mineral of the siliceous kind, and of several varieties. It is less hard than flint or even than common quartz, but gives fire with steel. It is entirely opake, or sometimes feebly translucent at the edges, and it presents almost every variety of color. Its varieties are common jasper striped jasper Egyptian jasper etc. It admits of an elegant polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff-boxes, etc.
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.