Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8275
שַׁרְבִיט
sharbitshar-beet'
scepter
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sharbîyṭ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8275is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8275
a rod of empire
The King James renders it: sceptre.
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
sharbit is rendered "scepter". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 4:11“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
Esther 4:11שַׁרְבִ֥יט
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- scepter of3
- the scepter1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שַׁרְשְׁרָה | sharsherah | chain | Uses7 |
| שַׁרְשָׁה | sharshah | chain | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- הַשַּׁרְבִֽיט׃ ס1
- שַׁרְבִ֣ט1
- שַׁרְבִ֥יט1
- שַׁרְבִ֤יט1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Esther
four uses
“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
- שַׁרְבִ֥יטsharvitnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scepter of
As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight. The king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
- שַׁרְבִ֤יטsharvitnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scepter of
- הַשַּׁרְבִֽיט׃ סhasharvitthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scepter
The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king.
- שַׁרְבִ֣טsharvitnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scepter of
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.