Strong’s H8143 · Hebrew
שֶׁנְהַבִּים
shenhabbîym · shen-hab-beem'
Origin from שֵׁן (H8127) and the plural apparently of a foreign word;
Meaning probably, tooth of elephants, i.e. ivory tusk
In the King James Version ivory.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Kings 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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.