Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5601
סַפִּיר
sappirsap-peer'
sapphire
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çappîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5601is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5601
a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire
The King James renders it: sapphire.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sappir is rendered "sapphire". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 24:10and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
Exodus 24:10הַסַּפִּ֔יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eleven uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sapphire5
- a sapphire2
- and sapphire1
- sapphires1
- the sapphire1
- with the sapphires1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- סַפִּ֖יר4
- בַּסַּפִּירִֽים׃1
- הַסַּפִּ֔יר1
- וְסַפִּֽיר׃1
- סַפִּ֥יר1
- סַפִּ֔יר1
- סַפִּ֣יר1
- סַפִּירִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular7HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HRd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
three uses
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
- הַסַּפִּ֔ירhasapirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sapphire
in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
- סַפִּ֖ירsapirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sapphire
the second row had a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
- סַפִּ֖ירsapirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sapphire
Job
two uses
Song of Solomon
one use
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
- סַפִּירִֽים׃sapirimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sapphires
Isaiah
one use
“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- בַּסַּפִּירִֽים׃basapirimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with the sapphires
Lamentations
one use
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
- סַפִּ֖ירsapirnoun · masculine singulartagged: sapphire
Ezekiel
three uses
Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.
- סַפִּ֖ירsapirnoun · masculine singulartagged: sapphire
And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
- סַפִּ֔ירsapirnoun · masculine singulartagged: sapphire
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
- סַפִּ֣ירsapirnoun · masculine singulartagged: sapphire
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.