# סַפִּיר (sapir)

Israeli respelling: sa-pir. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5601. 11 Old Testament occurrences.

a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire

King James renderings: sapphire.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sapir-h5601

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 24:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Exodus 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/28/18) — And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- [Exodus 39:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/39/11) — And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- [Job 28:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/6) — The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
- [Job 28:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/16) — It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- [Song of Solomon 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/14) — His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
- [Isaiah 54:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sap…
- [Lamentations 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Ezekiel 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 likenes…
- [Ezekiel 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Ezekiel 28:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…