H5601 סַפִּיר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 11 KJV occurrences
סַפִּיר
çappîyr · sap-peer'
Definition
a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire
KJV Renderings
sapphire.
Derivation / Etymology
from H5608 (סָפַר);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 11)
- Exodus 24:10And 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 28:18And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- Exodus 39:11And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- Song of Solomon 5:14His 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.
- 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 10:1Then 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.