Strong’s H5508 · Hebrew
סֹחֵרֶת
çôchêreth · so-kheh'-reth
Origin similar to סֹחֵרָה (H5507);
Meaning probably a (black) tile (or tessara) forlaying borders with
In the King James Version black marble.
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Esther 1:6Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.