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| + | ([[Text:EBD:Hebrew language|Heb]]. shebo), a [[Text:EBD:Stones, Precious|precious stone]] in the [[Text:EBD:Breastplate|breast-plate]] of the [[Text:EBD:High priest|high priest]] (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized quartz, probably brought from [[Text:EBD:Sheba|Sheba]], whence its name. In Isa. 54:12 and Ezek. 27:16, this word is the rendering of the Hebrew cadcod, which means "ruddy," and denotes a variety of minutely crystalline silica more or less in bands of different tints. | ||
| + | This word is from the [[Text:EBD:Greek|Greek]] name of a stone found in the [[Text:EBD:River|river]] Achates in Sicily. | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:32, 28 November 2008
(Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized quartz, probably brought from Sheba, whence its name. In Isa. 54:12 and Ezek. 27:16, this word is the rendering of the Hebrew cadcod, which means "ruddy," and denotes a variety of minutely crystalline silica more or less in bands of different tints.
This word is from the Greek name of a stone found in the river Achates in Sicily.
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