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Strong's Lookups -- Raw Output

H5178 -- נְחֹשֶׁת nechosheth (bronze/brass/copper)

  • Transliteration: nechosheth
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 141 occurrences
  • Definition: copper, hence something made of that metal; coin, fetter; figuratively base (as compared with gold or silver)
  • Translations: brass (32x), of brass (35x), brasen (14x), the brasen (13x), and brass (8x), with brass (5x), copper (1x), steel (1x), chain/fetters (various, 8x)
  • Key tabernacle verses: Exo 27:3,4,10,11,17,18,19; 30:18; 36:18,38; 38:3,8,10,11,17,19,20
  • Total 145 occurrences across 30 unique translations

H3701 -- כֶּסֶף keçeph (silver/money)

  • Transliteration: keçeph
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 403 occurrences
  • Definition: from root meaning "to pale"; silver (from its pale color); by implication money
  • Translations: of silver (100x), silver (84x), money (37x), the money (29x), the silver (27x), and silver (18x), for money (12x)
  • Key tabernacle verses: Exo 26:19,21,25,32; 27:10,11,17; 36:24,26,30,36; 38:10,11,12,17,19,25,27,28
  • Total 424 occurrences across 61 unique translations

H2091 -- זָהָב zahab (gold)

  • Transliteration: zahab
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 389 occurrences
  • Definition: from unused root meaning "to shimmer"; gold, figuratively something gold-colored (yellow), as oil, a clear sky
  • Translations: gold (103x), of gold (117x), with gold (29x), golden (24x), and gold (26x), the gold (20x)
  • Key tabernacle verses: Exo 25:3,11,12,13,17,18,24,28,29,31,36,38,39; 26:29,32,37; 28:5,6,8,13,14,15,22,36; 30:3; 35:5; 36:34,36; 37:2,6,7,11,16,17,22,23,24,26; 38:24; 39:2,5,8,15,16,25,30
  • Total 413 occurrences across 38 unique translations

H7848 -- שִׁטָּה shittah (acacia)

  • Transliteration: shittah
  • Part of Speech: feminine noun
  • BLB Count: 28 occurrences
  • Definition: the acacia (from its scourging thorns); plural shittim = sticks of wood
  • Translations: shittim (26x), of shittim (1x), the shittah tree (1x)
  • Key verses: Exo 25:5,10,13; 26:15,26,32,37; 27:1,6; 30:1,5; 36:20,31,36; 37:1,4,10,15,25,28; 38:1,6; Deu 10:3; Isa 41:19
  • Total 28 occurrences across 3 unique translations
  • Note: Nearly every occurrence is in Exodus tabernacle construction. Only Deu 10:3 (ark) and Isa 41:19 (restoration imagery) are outside Exodus.

H8504 -- תְּכֵלֶת tekeleth (blue/violet)

  • Transliteration: tekeleth
  • Part of Speech: feminine noun
  • BLB Count: 50 occurrences
  • Definition: the cerulean mussel; the color (violet) obtained therefrom or stuff dyed therewith
  • Translations: blue (23x), of blue (13x), and blue (5x), in blue (3x)
  • Key verses (tabernacle): Exo 25:4; 26:1,4,31,36; 27:16; 28:5,6,28,31,33,37; 35:23,25; 36:11,35,37; 38:18; 39:2,3,5,8,21,22,24,31
  • Also: Num 4:6,7,9,11,12; 15:38 (fringes); 2Ch 2:6,13,14; 3:14; Est 1:6; Jer 10:9; Ezk 23:6; 27:7,24
  • Total 49 occurrences across 7 unique translations

H8144 -- שָׁנִי shaniy (scarlet/crimson)

  • Transliteration: shaniy
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 42 occurrences
  • Definition: crimson; properly the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
  • Translations: and scarlet (19x), scarlet (4x), the scarlet (4x), of scarlet (3x), in scarlet (2x), crimson (1x)
  • Key verses: Exo 25:4; 26:1,31,36; 27:16; 28:5,6,8,15,33; 35:6,23,25,35; 36:8,35,37; 38:18,23; 39:1,2,3,5,8,24,29; also Gen 38:28,30; Lev 14:4,6,49,51,52; Num 4:3; 19:6; Jos 2:18,21; 2Sa 1:24; Pro 31:21; SS 4:3; Isa 1:18; Jer 4:30
  • Total 41 occurrences across 13 unique translations

H713 -- אַרְגָּמָן argaman (purple)

  • Transliteration: argaman
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 38 occurrences
  • Definition: of foreign origin; purple (the color or the dyed stuff)
  • Translations: and purple (24x), purple (7x), and in purple (2x), of purple (1x), the purple (1x), in purple (1x)
  • Key tabernacle verses: Exo 25:4; 26:1,31,36; 27:16; 28:5,6,8,15,33; 35:8,25,35; 36:8,35,37; 38:18,23; 39:1,2,3,5,8,24,29
  • Also: Num 4:13; Jdg 8:26; 2Ch 2:14; 3:14; Est 1:6; 8:15; Pro 31:22; SS 3:10; 7:6; Jer 10:9; Ezk 27:7,16
  • Total 36 occurrences across 6 unique translations

H948 -- בּוּץ buwts (fine linen/cotton)

  • Transliteration: buwts
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 8 occurrences
  • Definition: from unused root meaning "to bleach"; cotton (of some sort): fine (white) linen
  • Translations: of fine linen (3x), and fine linen (2x), fine linen (1x), and in fine linen (1x), in white linen (1x)
  • ALL verses: 2Sa 6:14; 1Ch 4:21; 15:27; 2Ch 2:13; 3:14; 5:12; Est 1:6; 8:15; Ezk 27:16
  • Note: This word does NOT appear in the Exodus tabernacle texts. The Exodus word for fine linen is shesh (H8336, "fine twined linen"). H948 buwts appears in Chronicles (temple), Esther, and Ezekiel.

H906 -- בַּד bad (linen)

  • Transliteration: bad
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 23 occurrences
  • Definition: flaxen thread or yarn; hence a linen garment
  • Translations: linen (14x), in linen (3x), the linen (2x), a linen (2x), of linen (1x), with linen (1x)
  • ALL verses: Exo 28:42; 39:28; Lev 6:3; 16:4,23,32; 1Sa 2:18; 22:18; 2Sa 6:14; 1Ch 15:27; Ezk 9:2,3,11; 10:2,6,7; Dan 10:5; 12:6,7
  • Note: This is specifically PRIESTLY linen. Used for priestly garments (Exo 28:42), Day of Atonement vestments (Lev 16:4,23,32), and the linen-clad angel/man in Ezekiel and Daniel.

H134 -- אֶדֶן eden (socket/base/foundation)

  • Transliteration: eden
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 57 occurrences
  • Definition: from same root as "strength"; a basis (of a building, a column, etc.): foundation, socket
  • Translations: sockets (25x), and their sockets (15x), the sockets (5x), his sockets (3x), the foundations thereof (1x)
  • Key verses: Exo 26:19,21,25,32,37; 27:10,11,12,14,15,16,17,18; 35:11,17; 36:24,26,30,36,38; 38:10,11,12,14,15,17,19,27,30,31; 39:33,40; 40:18; Num 3:36,37; 4:31,32; Job 38:6; SS 5:15; also Exo 38:27 explicitly
  • Note: Nearly ALL occurrences are tabernacle-related. The silver sockets form the FOUNDATION of the entire tabernacle structure.

H8403 -- תַּבְנִית tabniyth (pattern/model)

  • Transliteration: tabniyth
  • Part of Speech: feminine noun
  • BLB Count: 20 occurrences
  • Definition: from banah (to build); structure; by implication a model, resemblance
  • Translations: the pattern (4x), the likeness (3x), The likeness (2x), the form (2x), similitude (2x), figure (1x), form (1x)
  • Key verses: Exo 25:9 (2x), 25:40; Deu 4:16,17,18; Jos 22:28; 2Ki 16:10; 1Ch 28:11,12,18,19; Psa 106:20; 144:12; Isa 44:13; Ezk 8:3,10,10; 10:8
  • Note: In Exo 25:9 the word appears twice: "the pattern (tabniyth) of the tabernacle" and "the pattern of all the instruments thereof." In Exo 25:40 it recurs: "after their pattern (tabniyth) which was shewed thee in the mount."

H1687 -- דְּבִיר debir (oracle/inner sanctuary)

  • Transliteration: debir
  • Part of Speech: masculine noun
  • BLB Count: 16 occurrences
  • Definition: the shrine or innermost part of the sanctuary: oracle
  • Translations: the oracle (8x), and of the oracle (1x), for the oracle (1x), within the oracle (1x), of the oracle (1x), in the oracle (1x), by the oracle (1x), oracle (1x)
  • ALL verses: 1Ki 6:5,16,19,20,21,22,23,31; 7:49; 8:6,8; 2Ch 3:16; 4:20; 5:7,9; Psa 28:2
  • Note: This word is used exclusively for Solomon's temple, not the tabernacle. The tabernacle uses qodesh haqqodashim ("holy of holies"). Debir may derive from dabar ("to speak") -- the oracle, the place where God speaks.

H6918 -- קָדוֹשׁ qadosh (holy/sacred)

  • Transliteration: qadosh
  • Part of Speech: adjective
  • BLB Count: 116 occurrences
  • Definition: sacred (ceremonially or morally); as noun: God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
  • Translations: holy (51x), the Holy One (23x), of the Holy One (4x), the holy (3x), saints (various, 8x), saint (2x)
  • Key tabernacle-related verses: Lev 19:2 ("be holy, for I am holy"); 20:7,26; Exo 19:6; and many others
  • Total 119 occurrences across 32 unique translations