Strong's #7718: shoham (pronounced sho'-ham)

from an unused root probably mean to blanch; a gem, probably the beryl (from its pale green color):--onyx.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shôham

1) a precious stone or gem

1a) probably onyx, chrysoprasus, beryl, malachite

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to blanch

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Genesis 2:12: "is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone."
Exodus 25:7: " Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate."
Exodus 28:9: "And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names"
Exodus 28:20: "And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold"
Exodus 35:9: " And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate."
Exodus 35:27: "And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod,"
Exodus 39:6: "And they wrought onyx stones enclosed in ouches of gold, graven,"
Exodus 39:13: "And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold"
1 Chronicles 29:2: "for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones,"
Job 28:16: "with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire."
Ezekiel 28:13: "topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,"