Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
לֶשֶׁם
- Transliteration
- leshem
- Pronunciation
- leh'-shem
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 2
Glosses
ligure.
Lexicon definition
a gem, perhaps the jacinth
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Ligure
לשם, Exod. xxviii, 19; This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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- Subject
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- H3958
- Hebrew
- לֶשֶׁם · leshem
Strong’s and original-language information
H3958
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Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Ligure
(Heb. leshem) occurs only in Ex. 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of a stone in the third row on the high priest's breastplate. Some have supposed that this stone was the same as the jacinth (q.v.), others that it was the opal. There is now no mineral bearing this name. The "ligurite" is so named from Liguria in Italy, where it was found.
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
LIGURE
לשם, Exod. xxviii, 19; xxxix, 12, a precious stone of a deep red colour, with a considerable tinge of yellow. Theophrastus and Pliny describe it as resembling the carbuncle, of a brightness sparkling like fire.
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Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
LIGURE
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Nave’s Topical Bible references for LIGURE.
Indexed references: 1
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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LIGURE
Nave’s Topical Bible references for LIGURE.
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Jacinth
Properly a flower of a reddish blue or deep purple (hyacinth), and hence a precious stone of that colour (Rev. 21:20). It has been supposed to designate the same stone as the ligure (Heb. leshem) mentioned in Ex. 28:19 as the first stone of the third row in the high priest's breast-plate. In Rev. 9:17 the word is simply descriptive of colour.
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Ligure
(Heb. leshem) occurs only in Ex. 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of a stone in the third row on the high priest's breastplate. Some have supposed that this stone was the same as the jacinth (q.v.), others that it was the opal. There is now no mineral bearing this name. The "ligurite" is so named from Liguria in Italy, where it was found.
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