STRONGS NUMBER H1894


Word Summary
hobni: ebony (a kind of wood)
Original Word: הֹבן
Transliteration: hobni
Phonetic Spelling: (ho'-ben)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: ebony (a kind of wood)
Meaning: ebony (a kind of wood)
Strong's Concordance
ebony

Only in plural, from an unused root meaning to be hard; ebony -- ebony.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1894. hobni

[הָבְנִי‎] noun [masculine] ebony (so Symm ᵑ9‎ Ki & moderns; otherwise ᵑ6 ᵐ5‎; Egyptian heben, LiebleinÄZ 1886, 13 compare PinskEinleitung 83; Greek ἔβενος, Latin hebenum) — only plural הָבְנִיםEzekiel 27:15 Qr (Kt הובנים‎) והבנים שֵׁן קַרְנוֺת‎; it was brought from India, & (finer) from Ethiopia, compare Sm & references