Lexical Definition

‎אַחְלָמָה‎ ʼachlâmâh (akh-law'-maw) amethyst ^H:N-F
perhaps from ‎חָלַם‎ (and thus dream-stone)

amethyst.

• a gem, probably the amethyst

1) amethyst, a gem in the third row on the ephod, breastplate of judgment worn by the high priest. Transliteration of the Septuagint word. Identification is not certain but is a purple stone perhaps a corundum or red or brown jasper.

See Greek: ἀμέθυστος

Extended Information

• amethyst, a gem in the third row on the ephod, breastplate of judgment worn by the high priest. Transliteration of the Septuagint word. Identification is not certain but is a purple stone perhaps a corundum or red or brown jasper.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַחְלָ֑מָה‎ noun feminine perhaps amethyst (etymology dubious; below ‎חלם‎ Thes q. v.; Hal^{JAs 7, x. 426} from ‎חלם‎ être fort, solide; Di Kn compare Talmud ‎חַלְמִית‎, malva & think of green malachite; Dl^{HA 36 N derived} from Aramaic land A—lamû), amethyst according to ᵐ5 ᵑ9 Josephus; see also Lag^{GGA 1884, 285}, but compare Di; one of the gems on the ephod Exod 28:19; Exod 39:12.

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