Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
jacinth
Usage: 1) a precious stone 1a) a precious stone in the high priest's breast-plate 1a1) probably jacinth or ligure
Leshem means “ligure” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3958 — pascho (“feel”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3958 לֶשֶׁם (leshem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. leshem (leh'-shem) n-m. 1. a gem, perhaps the jacinth [from an unused root of uncertain meaning] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include ligure. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
leshem (leh'-shem) n-m. 1. a gem, perhaps the jacinth [from an unused root of uncertain meaning] KJV: ligure.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3958. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
jacinth
Usage: 1) a precious stone 1a) a precious stone in the high priest's breast-plate 1a1) probably jacinth or ligure
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render leshem, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3958.
And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3958, grouped by book.
Leshem (Strong's H3958) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "ligure". leshem (leh'-shem) n-m. 1. a gem, perhaps the jacinth [from an unused root of uncertain meaning]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's H3958 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3958 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as ligure. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.