לשם

Borrowed from Egyptian nšmt (“amazonite”). The King James Version translates this as ligure, and the Jewish Publication Society of America Version as jacinth.

לֶשֶׁם • (léshem) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. (Biblical Hebrew) A kind of stone
   • Exodus 28:19 and 39:12,

     וְהַטּוּר הַשְּׁלִישִׁי לֶשֶׁם שְׁבוֹ וְאַחְלָמָה.

     V'hatur hash'lishi leshem sh'vo v'achlama.

     And the third row: [leshem], [sh'vo], and [achlama].

• Ayil, Ephraim S. (2024). "Chapter 9 ‮לֶשֶׁם‬ Lešem—Amazonite". In Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678002_010
• H3958 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• משל
• שלם

Borrowed from Hebrew לְשֵׁם (l'shem, “to the name of”)

• IPA^(key): /ləˈʃɛm/

לשם • (leshem)

1. for, for the sake of

   Synonym: צוליב (tsulib)

   • 1967, Chaim Grade, צמח אַטלאַס [Tsemakh Atlas], page 60:

     ער האָט געהאָרעוועט אויף זיך צו טאָן גוטס לשם גוטס, ניט פאַר כבוד און ניט כדי יענער זאָל אים שפּעטער צוריקצאָלן מיט אַ טובה.

     er hot gehorevet oyf zikh tsu ton guts leshem guts, nit far kevod un nit kedey yener zol im tsuriktsoln mit a toyve.

     He worked on himself to do good for the sake of good, not for honor and not so that someone would later pay him back a favor.