Bible Dictionaries
Rubies

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

peniyim , peninim (Job 28:18; Proverbs 3:15; Proverbs 8:11; Proverbs 31:10; Lamentations 4:7), "more ruddy than rubies," but Bochart "pearls." Gesenius (from the Arabic "a branch" and the Hebrew paanan "to divide into branches" or else "to turn" from the globular form), "corals."

Bibliography Information
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Rubies'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​r/rubies.html. 1949.