BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H306
ach.la.mah — amethyst
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.
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7526
heterozugos — unequally yoked
coupled with an animal of diverse kind , (Septuagint Greek Bible) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8162
laxeuō — to dress stone
to hew in stone , (Septuagint Greek Bible) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8274
methodeuō — to use craft
to treat by method: to use cunning devices, employ craft , (Septuagint Greek Bible) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9043
Sabbatizō — to observe sabbaths
to keep the Sabbath , (Septuagint Greek Bible) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →See VERSIONS.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
