סַפִּיר
sap.pir (H5601)
sapphire
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word, sap.pir (H5601), is used to describe a specific mineral, sapphire, which is a valuable and richly colored stone. In the context of the Bible, where it appears 11 times, sapphire is associated with wealth and commerce. The fact that it is linked to the semantic domain of Commerce & Wealth suggests that its value and rarity were highly prized for their symbolic meaning and material wealth. Given its high value as a gemstone, sapphire likely represented wealth and luxury for those who could afford it, possibly even signifying spiritual wealth or divine blessing in the biblical narrative. The stone's rarity and beauty served as a status symbol, indicating the owner's prosperity and social standing. By employing sap.pir to describe this expensive gem, the biblical authors convey the importance and significance of material possessions and the blessings they represented. Throughout the 11 instances in the Bible, the use of sap.pir helps set the tone of wealth, luxury, and spiritual abundance for the contexts in which it appears. Its recurring association with Commerce & Wealth underlines the significant place of material possessions in human aspirations and divine blessings in biblical times.
AI synthesis uses only provided lexicon data -- never training knowledge.
They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.
Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.