Exodus 28:20
a beryl.Eze 1:16; 10:9; Da 10:6; Re 21:20an onyx. See on ver.9a jasper.Re 4:3; 21:11,18-20inclosings. Heb. fillings.13Ezekiel 1:16
the colour.10:9; Ex 39:13; Da 10:6a wheel.10:10; Job 9:10; Ps 36:6; 40:5; Ro 11:33; Eph 3:10Ezekiel 10:9
behold.1:15-17as the.Da 10:6; Re 21:20a beryl.{Tarshish} is generally rendered by the LXX. and the Vulgate the chrysolite, so called by the ancients (from [chrusos (chrysos) ,] gold, and [lithos ,] a stone,) because of its fine gold yellow colour. It is now called by the moderns the topaz; is a very beautiful and valuable gem in its pure and perfect state, though very rarely found so; and the finer pieces of it are in hardness second only to the diamond. The Vulgate, however, in ch. 1:16, renders, {quasi visio maris,} "as the appearance of the seas," i.e., azure; and Dr. Geddes (on Ex 28:10) says, that, with {Abarbanel,} he believes the beryl to be intended. It is a pellucid gem, called by our lapidaries, {aqua marina,} of a sea or bluish green colour, found in the East Indies and about the gold mines of Peru. The genuine beryl never receives any other mixture of colour; and in its perfect state approaches the hardness of garnet.Revelation of John 21:20
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