שַׂהֲרוֹן
sa.ha.ron
“crescent”
Definition
a round pendant for the neck
from the same as H5469 (סַהַר);
- moon, crescent 1a) as ornament
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
שַׂהֲרוֹן appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
In that day the Lord will take away their finery:their anklets and headbands and crescents;
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.
The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.