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סֹחֶרֶת

so.che.ret

stone

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Strong’s H5508Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

paving stone1

In the text

Esther 1:6וְסֹחָרֶת
Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[סֹחֶ֫רֶת] n.f. a stone used (with marble) in paving;—Est 1:6.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.