What to settle before you buy a hamsa, from the diamonds and the gold to the chain
Start with a diamond hand. Nearly every hamsa that sells here carries diamonds, and the one sold most is a 10K diamond hand. Take 14K if it will hang on you every day, and take yellow, the color most people pick. A hand sold alone rides a chain you already own, so bring that chain's width to the desk. Every diamond hand says lab-grown or natural on its listing; read that line first.
The motif: hamsa pendant meaning, hand of Fatima or Miriam, fingers up or down
A hamsa is an open hand, worn against the evil eye, and the name comes from the word for five. Jewish families call it the hand of Miriam, Muslim families the hand of Fatima, and people of every faith wear it. Where the hand comes from, and why many carry an eye in the palm, is in our hamsa hand meaning guide.
Fingers up turns harm away and fingers down brings blessing in. The bail decides which way the hand falls, and no listing says, so look at the photo and ask us. Most hands here are marked for men and women both, so choose by size, not the label. Buying for her? Women's hamsa necklaces gathers the hands marked for women.
Diamonds: diamond hamsa pendant, pave hamsa, lab-grown or natural, sapphire and ruby hamsa
Buy a diamond hamsa. Four titles in five carry a diamond word, and nearly every hand sold in the year did too. Pave is many small diamonds set close, so the whole palm lights up as one surface.
Lab-grown and natural are both diamond. Every diamond hand names which one on its listing, natural on 38 and lab-grown on 8. How the two compare is on the men's pendants guide. Sapphire and ruby sit on a handful of hands.
Metal: 14k or 10k gold hamsa pendant, yellow, white or rose, two tone
Take 14K for a hand you never take off. Nearly every listing is 14K, and it brought in about three quarters of the sales here. The 10K diamond hamsa is still the hand that sells most, paler and harder. The karat numbers are on the men's gold chains guide.
Pick the color on the listing, where most offer yellow, white and rose. Two buyers in three took yellow. Two tone pairs two colors of 14K gold in one hand. Ask whether a white hand is rhodium finished, since no listing says.
Size and weight: how big a hamsa pendant is, small and micro hamsa, hamsa pendant grams
The everyday hamsa here is three quarters of an inch wide. It stands about an inch and a third tall. Under half an inch wears like a charm, and an inch or wider shows over a shirt.
The middle hand lists 7.50 grams, and most weigh under 10. Width drives the weight. The sets are the light pieces, not the heavy ones. Ask the desk whether a listed drop counts the bail.
The chain: what chain to wear a hamsa pendant on, hamsa pendant with chain, hamsa pendant set
A hamsa sold alone hangs on a chain you already wear, so check the bail first. No listing prints its opening, so give the live chat your chain's width and link, or text them to 212-872-9692, read by a person from 10 AM ET. Which chain carries which weight is on the men's pendants guide.
Or take a set, the hand and its chain in one listing. Half the sets let you pick 18 to 24 inches. Of the few sold with a length, most went 18 or 20, short enough to keep a small hand up at an open collar. Where each inch lands is on the chain and pendant sets guide, and the desk can shorten or lengthen any chain here.