Strong H5601סַפִּיר

Definition

Detailed definition

In the Bible

Strong H5601 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

• sapphire10
• stone1

First verses

1. 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.
2. Exodus 28:18
   And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
3. Exodus 39:11
   And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
4. Job 28:6
   The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
5. Job 28:16
   It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
6. Song of Songs 5:14
   His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
7. 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.
8. 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:
9. 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.
10. 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 of the likeness of a throne.
11. 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 sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Occurrences by book

• Exodus3
• Job2
• Song of Songs1
• Isaiah1
• Lamentations1
• Ezekiel3

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