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Gematria of Diamond

2 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “diamond” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 14 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
2
Occurrences
14
Distinct values
2

The 2 Hebrew words rendered “diamond”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

שָׁמִירshâmîyr×11 in the TanakhH8068

a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond

Standard 550 →Gadol 550Katan 10Siduri (ordinal) 64Atbash 55Perati 131,700Milui 970

First appearance ·Isaiah 5:6ישעיהו ה:ושָׁמִיר

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יַהֲלֹםyahălôm×3 in the TanakhH3095

a precious stone, probably onyx

Standard 85 →Gadol 645Katan 13Siduri (ordinal) 40Atbash 160Perati 2,625Milui 180

First appearance ·Exodus 28:18שמות כח:יחוְיָהֲלֹֽם

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What is the gematria of diamond?

The Tanakh renders “diamond” with 2 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: שמיר = 550 and יהלם = 85.

How do you say diamond in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 2 Hebrew words for “diamond”; the most frequent are שמיר (shâmîyr), 11 times; יהלם (yahălôm), 3 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.