Sapphire:
(Heb. sappir) a precious stone, apparently of a bright‐blue color, set: (Exodus 24:10) the second stone in the second row of the high priest's breastplate (Exodus 28:18) extremely precious (Job 28:16) it was one of the precious stones that ornamented the king of Tyre (Ezekiel 28:13). The sapphire of the ancients was not our gem of that name, viz. the azure or indigo‐blue, crystalline variety of corundum, but our lapis lazuli (ultra‐marine.)
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