Lexical Definition

‎בַּהַט‎ bahaṭ (bah'-hat) porphyry ^H:N-M
from an unused root (probably meaning to glisten)

red (marble).

• white marble or perhaps alabaster

1) a costly stone (perhaps porphyry), red marble

See Greek: σμάραγδος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בַּ֫הַט‎ noun [masculine] a costly stone, perhaps porphyry (compare Egyptian behiti, behet, behat Brugsch^{Dict. v. 438} Dümichen^{Geschichte 167 f.} Wendel^{Altäg. Bau- u. Edelsteine (1888) 77 f.}; ᵐ5 has σμαραγδίτης), Esth 1:6 ‎עַל‎ ‎וָֿשֵׁשׁ וְדַר וְסֹחָ֑רֶת‎‎׳‎‎ִ˜רצֲפַת ב‎ upon a pavement of porphyry and marble, etc.

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