King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8143
Transliteration: shenhabbim
Phonetic Spelling: (shen-hab-beem')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: ivory
Meaning: probably, tooth of elephants, ivory tusk
Word Summary
shenhabbim: ivory
Original Word: שֶׁנְהַבֵּיםTransliteration: shenhabbim
Phonetic Spelling: (shen-hab-beem')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: ivory
Meaning: probably, tooth of elephants, ivory tusk
Strong's Concordance
ivory From shen and the plural apparently of a foreign word; probably, tooth of elephants, i.e. Ivory tusk -- ivory.
see HEBREW shen
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8143. shenhabbim
שֶׁנְהַבִּים apparently noun masculine [plural], in list of Solomon's imports, 1 Kings 10:22 2 Chronicles 9:21, AV RV ivory (elsewhere שֵׁן alone); hence הַבִּים = elephants according to Ges (in Thes) Ew Hi SchrZMG xxvii (1873), 709 COT1Kings, compare ᵐ5 (2 Chronicles, and A in 1Kings) ὀδόντων ἐλεφαντίνων, ᵑ9 (in 1Kings) dentes elephantorum, ᵑ7; but this very dubious; < read RöThes Th Be CheEB 1154 (וְ)הָבְנִים שֵׁן ivory (and) ebony (Ezekiel 27:15).