STRONGS NUMBER H3471


Word Summary
yashepheh: jasper
Original Word: יֱשְׁפֵה
Transliteration: yashepheh
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-shef-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: jasper
Meaning: a gem supposed to be jasper
Strong's Concordance
jasper

From an unused root meaning to polish; a gem supposed to be jasper (from the resemblance in name) -- jasper.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3471. yashepheh

יָָֽשְׁפֶהnoun [masculine] jasper (loan-word from Persian so Arabic Lane2978, also (and on forms , ) Frey; perhaps Assyrian ašpû DlHA 36, HWB147) — וְיָָֽשְׁפֵ֑ה וְשֹׁהַם תַּרְשִׁישׁExodus 28:20; 39:13 (both P) beryl and onyx and jasper (see Di); וְיָָֽשְׁפֶ֔ה‎ (+id.) Ezekiel 28:13 (see Sm).

יִשְׁמָּה‎ see below שׁפה‎; יִשְׁמָּן‎ see below שׁפן