וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשֵּׁנִ֑י נֹ֥פֶךְ סַפִּ֖יר וְיָהֲלֹֽם
and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 39:11
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 39:11 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
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King James Version Public Domain
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the second row: an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the second row had a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the second row had a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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King James Version Public Domain
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And in the seconde rowe, an Emeraude, a Saphir, and a Diamond:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The second row had an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the second row: an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
In the second row turquoise, lapis lazuli, and sardonyx.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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וְיָהֲלֹֽם
yahălôm
H3095
“and · precious stone”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 28:18
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
a precious stone (known for its hardness)
- perhaps the jasper, onyx, or diamond
- וְהַטּ֖וּר ṭûwr H2905 “and · the · row” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הַשֵּׁנִ֑י shênîy H8145 “the · second” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- נֹ֥פֶךְ nôphek H5306 “precious stone” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- סַפִּ֖יר çappîyr H5601 “sapphire” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְיָהֲלֹֽם yahălôm H3095 “and · precious stone” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 5
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְיָהֲלֹֽם precious stone H3095 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְיָהֲלֹֽם precious stone H3095 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
- 1 adjective
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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
2Topical passages linked to Exodus 39:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 28:18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
- Ezekiel 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὁ δέ λοιπός χρυσίον ὁ ἀφαίρεμα ποιέω σκεῦος εἰς ὁ λειτουργέω ἐν αὐτός ἔναντι κύριος
And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְסִדְרָא תִּנְיָנָא אִזְמָרַגְדִין שַׁבְזִיז וְסַבְהֲלוֹם:
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְשׁוּם סִדְרָא תִּנְיָנָא אִיזְמוֹרַד וְסִפִּירִינוּן וְכַדְכּוֹדִין וַעֲלֵיהוֹן חָקִיק וּמְפָרַשׁ שְׁמָהַת תְּלַת שִׁבְטַיָא יְהוּדָה דָן וְנַפְתָּלִי
And the name of the second row, smarag, and sapphire, and chalcedony: and upon them was inscribed and set forth the name of three tribes, Jehudah, Dan, and Naphtali.
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.
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 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yahălôm (“precious stone”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “precious stone” (yahălôm) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 28:18 shares the word «precious stone» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.