Strong's #5601: cappiyr (pronounced sap-peer')
from 5608; a gem (perhaps used for scratching other substances), probably the sapphire:--sapphire.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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sappı̂yr
1) sapphire, lapis lazuli
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H5608
Usage:
This word is used 11 times:
Exodus 24:10: "his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness."
Exodus 28:18: "And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond."
Exodus 39:11: "And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond."
Job 28:6: "The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold."
Job 28:16: "of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire."
Song of Solomon 5:14: "is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires."
Isaiah 54:11: "thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."
Lamentations 4:7: "than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:"
Ezekiel 1:26: "their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness"
Ezekiel 10:1: "of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne."
Ezekiel 28:13: "the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship"