sapir · sapphire

What it means

sapir (סַפִּיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sapphire”.

A blue precious stone, called "sapphire"; perhaps lapis lazuli.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A blue precious stone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sapphire ×9
• sapphires ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Job×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Exodus 24:10

  and they saw the Elohim of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a work of pavement of sapphire, and like the very heavens for clearness.

• Exodus 28:18

  the second row, turquoise, sapphire, and diamond;

• Exodus 39:11

  and the second row, turquoise, sapphire, and diamond;

• Job 28:6

  A place of sapphire are its stones, and it has dust of gold.

• Job 28:16

  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphire.

• Song of Songs 5:14

  His hands are cylinders of gold set with chrysolite; his belly a plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

• Isaiah 54:11

  “Afflicted one, storm-tossed, not comforted: look, I am setting your stones on antimony, and I will lay your foundations on sapphires.

• Lamentations 4:7

  Purer than snow were her Nazirites, whiter than milk; ruddier in body than pearls, like sapphire their form.

• Ezekiel 1:26

  And above the vault that was over their heads, like the appearance of a sapphire stone, was the likeness of a throne; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness like the appearance of a human being on it, above.

• Ezekiel 10:1

  And I looked, and look, on the vault that was over the head of the cherubim, like a sapphire stone, like the appearance of the likeness of a throne, something appeared above them.

• Ezekiel 28:13

  In Eden, the garden of Elohim, you were; every precious stone was your covering: ruby, topaz, and diamond, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald, and gold; the work of your tambourines and of your settings was in you; on the day you were created they were prepared.