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title: לֶשֶׁם — gem · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לֶשֶׁם (3958), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: gem. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לֶשֶׁם

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«לֶשֶׁם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gem** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3958 · **BDB:** לֶשֶׁם

### Glosses

\[was\].a.jacinth (1); \[will.be\].a.jacinth (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gem [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3958/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a precious stone in h. p.’s breast-plate Ex 28:19; 39:12 (√ and meaning dub.; 𝔊 λιγύριον, JosephAnt. iii, 7, 5 λίγυρος, 𝔙 ligurius, and this (= λυγκούριον, lyncurion?) compared with carbuncle PlinNH viii. 57 (38); identif. with amber Demostratus in PlinNH xxxvii.11(2), or with jacinth (Rev 21:20) Braunde Vest. Sacerd. ii. 14 WinerRWB i. 332; cf. further, Di Ex 28:19).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לֶשֶׁם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3958/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 28:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.19/)

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וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י לֶ֥שֶׁם שְׁב֖וֹ וְאַחְלָֽמָה׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) third \[will.be\].a.jacinth an.agate and an.amethyst

*JPS 1917:* and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

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[Exodus 39:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.12/)

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וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י לֶ֥שֶׁם שְׁב֖וֹ וְאַחְלָֽמָה׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) third \[was\].a.jacinth an.agate and an.amethyst

*JPS 1917:* And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.

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