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    I was watching a YouTube video about Exodus 32:15. The man on the video insists that the Hebrew word Luhot actually means sapphires. Is this true? I'm having a hard time believing this.
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    Originally posted by Speedlearner1 View Post
    I was watching a YouTube video about Exodus 32:15. The man on the video insists that the Hebrew word Luhot actually means sapphires. Is this true? I'm having a hard time believing this.
    The Jews already had a word for sapphire - sap·pîr
    That's what
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    • #3
      Or panels, or plates, or boards (as in 1 Kings 7:36, Song of Solomon 8:9).
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      • #4
        Have you considered you don't need to start threads for questions like this?

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          Is there another way to ask questions here?
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            There is a forum for Biblical languages....

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              I was unaware of this. Thanks for informing me. Can you point me in the correct direction?
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                http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fo...-Languages-301

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                  Thank you very much.
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                    • #11
                      It’s not the idea that luchoth means sapphire. But luchoth is some kind of thin, flat panel. In Exodus 24:10, Moses and the elders came to God, and he was standing on a pavement of sapphire (or the hebrew word sapphir could actually be lapis lazuli). “Pavement” would be thin, flat tiles of stone. So the Jews figured that God took two of those tiles to make the ten commandments. The luchoth are first mentioned just two verses after the pavement was described.
                      Since the tablets were stone, and sapphire is stone, it’s not unreasonable.

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                      • #12
                        There is a tradition, somewhat based on the fact that Jewish garments were supposed to have blue tassels (Numbers 15:37-39). The Mishnah of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Avot 5:6 and Tractate Nedarim, folio 38a, suggest that the stones were made of sapphire. If so, the text must have been fine print. It's only a tradition, no basis in the Bible or geology for tha matter.
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