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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exd 39:6 — And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
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onyx stones
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The meaning of the word shoham is not easily determined. It has been variously rendered a beryl, emerald, prasius, sapphire, sardius, ruby, carnelian, onyx, and sardonyx. It may signify both the onyx and sardonyx. The latter stone is a mixture of the chalcedony and carnelian, sometimes in strata, and at other times blended together, and is found striped with white and red strata, or layers. It is generally allowed that there is no real difference, except in hardness, between the carnelian, chalcedony, agate, sardonyx, and onyx. The onyx is of a darkish horny colour, resembling the nail or hoof, from which circumstance it has its name [(onyx).] It has often a plate of a blueish white or red in it, and when on one or both sides of this white there appears a plate of a reddish colour, the jewellers call the stone a sardonyx. Exd 25:7; Exd 28:9; Exd 35:9; Job 28:16; Eze 28:13 |
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ouches
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Mishbetzoth, strait places, sockets, to insert the stones in, from shavatz, to straiten, enclose. |
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Exd 25:7 |
Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. |
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Exd 28:9 |
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: |
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Exd 35:9 |
And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate. |
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Job 28:16 |
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. |
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Eze 28:13 |
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 39:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Exd/39/6.html>.
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