Exodus 35:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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Septuagint runs longer here — compare

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שֹׁ֔הַם

shôham

H7718

“onyx”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 2:12

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root probably mean to blanch

TWOT: 2337

a precious stone or gem - probably onyx, chrysoprasus, beryl, malachite

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
5: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שֹׁ֔הַם onyx H7718 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שֹׁ֔הַם onyx H7718 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וְאַ֨בְנֵי stone H68 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 35:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 25:5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
Exodus 28:9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus 28:17–21 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
Exodus 39:6–14 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 22 words vs World English Bible 14. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 35:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַ֨בְנֵי שֹׁ֔הַם וְאַבְנֵ֖י מִלֻּאִ֑ים לָאֵפ֖וֹד וְלַחֹֽשֶׁן

onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 35:9 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λίθος σάρδιον καί λίθος εἰς ὁ γλυφή εἰς ὁ ἐπωμίς καί ὁ ποδήρης

And every man that is wise in heart among you, let him come and work all things whatever the Lord has commanded.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְאַבְנֵי בוּרְלָא וְאַבְנֵי אַשְׁלָמוּתָא לְשַׁקָעָא בְּאֵפוֹדָא וּבְחוּשְׁנָא:

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

מַרְגַלְיַין דְּבוּרְלִין הִינוּן וּמַרְגַּלְיַין דְּאַשְׁלָמוּתָא לִמְשַׁקְעָא בְּאֵפוֹדָא וּבְחוּשְׁנָא

the onyx stones, and stones for completing the enchasement of the ephoda and the breastplate.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 35:9 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 9. Onyx stones] See Ex 25:7.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shôham (“onyx”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “onyx” (shôham) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 2:12, which shares the word «onyx», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “stone” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“stone” occurs 2× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.