Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H5601: סַפִּיר

çappîyr · pronounced sap-peer' · “sapphire”

Definition

a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire

KJV translates it as: sapphire.

Word origin: from H5608 (סָפַר);

Extended definition

sapphire, lapis lazuli

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H5601 is translated

  • sapphire ×6
  • a sapphire ×2
  • sapphires ×2
  • was sapphire ×1

Bible verses with H5601 (çappîyr)

Çappîyr appears in 11 verses.

  • Exodus 24:10

    And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

  • Exodus 28:18

    And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

  • Exodus 39:11

    And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

  • Job 28:6

    The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

  • Job 28:16

    It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

  • Song of Solomon 5:14

    His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

  • Isaiah 54:11

    O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

  • Lamentations 4:7

    Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

  • Ezekiel 1:26

    And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

  • Ezekiel 10:1

    Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

  • Ezekiel 28:13

    Thou 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.

Words derived from H5601