סַפִּיר sappir
Hebrew word for “sapphire” · Strong’s H5601 · used 11 times in 11 verses
Meaning
sapphire, lapis lazuli
How it is translated
Glosses given for sappir in context, with how often each is used:
- sapphire 9
- sapphires 2
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exodus | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Song of Solomon | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 |
Chapters where it is used most
Job 28 (2), Exodus 24 (1), Exodus 28 (1), Exodus 39 (1), Song of Solomon 5 (1), Isaiah 54 (1), Lamentations 4 (1), Ezekiel 1 (1), Ezekiel 10 (1), Ezekiel 28 (1)
Forms
- ספיר 7
- הספיר 1
- וספיר 1
- ספירים 1
- בספירים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with sappir more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יַהֲלֹם yahalom “jasper” 3
- נֹפֶךְ nophekh “emerald” 3
- אֶבֶן even “stone” 5
- תַּרְשִׁישׁ tarshish “jasper” 2
- שֹׁהַם shoham “onyx” 2
- רָקִיעַ raqia “expanse” 2
- טוּר tur “row” 2
- דְּמוּת demut “likeness” 2
- יָקָר yaqar “precious” 2
- זָהָב zahav “gold” 3
- מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 2
- עֶצֶם etsem “bone” 2
Key verses
The verses using sappir that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
See all 11 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.