STRONGS NUMBER G4552


Word Summary
sappheiros: sapphire, perhaps lapis lazuli
Original Word: σάπφειρος
Transliteration: sappheiros
Phonetic Spelling: (sap'-fi-ros)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: sapphire, perhaps lapis lazuli
Meaning: sapphire, perhaps lapis lazuli
Strong's Concordance
sapphire.

Of Hebrew origin (cappiyr); a "sapphire" or lapis-lazuli gem -- sapphire.

see HEBREW cappiyr

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4552: σάπφειρος

σάπφειρος, σαπφείρου, , Hebrew סַפִיר, sapphire, a precious stone (perhaps our lapis lazuli, cf. B. D., under the word ; Riehm, HWB, under the word Edelsteine, 14): Revelation 21:19. (Theophrastus, Dioscorides (?), others; the Sept..)