בַּהַטbahaṭ
white marble or perhaps alabaster
Pronunciation: bah'-hat · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H923
Meanings
a costly stone, perhaps porphyry (Esther 1:6)
Where it appears
Appears 1 times in the Bible.
- Esther 1:6 The courtyard was beautifully decorated with white cotton curtains and blue hangings, which were fastened with white linen cords and purple ribbons to silver rings embedded in marble pillars. Gold and silver couches stood on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).