Bible Dictionary: Precious Stones: Emerald

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Ezekiel 27:16
Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of your making: they occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
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Revelation 4:3
And he that sat was to look on like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like to an emerald.
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Introduction.
... These precious stones have been identified as follows, taking the High Priest's
breastplate: i. 1. Red carnelian 2. Chrysolite (greenish-yellow) 3. Emerald ii. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/introduction 4.htm

On Counter Promises.
... and its battlements of crystal; that it is to have a wall composed of many precious
stones, as jasper, and sapphire, and chalcedony, and emerald, and sardonyx ...
/.../origen/origen de principiis/chapter xi on counter promises.htm

The Open Door.
... sits one like a jasper and a sardine stone, and the rainbow round about the throne
is in sight like unto an emerald. In all ages precious stones have been ...
/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon xxxv the open door.htm

On the Use of Ointments and Crowns.
... a savour of life unto life." [1461] And the kings of the Jews using gold and precious
stones and a ... The precious stone, or pearl, or emerald, points out ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter viii on the use of.htm

An Advance Step in the Royal Programme
... John can see is some One who seems to his eyes like transparent precious stones
blazing with ... And this rainbow is all of one colour, a clear, soft emerald-green ...
/.../quiet talks on the crowned christ of revelation/v an advance step in the.htm

Against Excessive Fondness for Jewels and Gold Ornaments.
... the stones which silly women wear fastened to chains and set in necklaces, amethysts,
ceraunites, jaspers, topaz, and the Milesian. "Emerald, most precious ware ...
/.../the instructor paedagogus/chapter xiiiagainst excessive fondness for.htm

High Priest
... external part of this gorget was set with four rows of precious stones; the first
row, a serdious, a topaz, and a carbuncle; the second, an emerald, a sapphire ...
/.../conversion of a high priest into a christian worker/chapter iv high priest.htm

How Ptolemy Philadelphus Procured the Laws of the Jews to be ...
... of various colors; the carbuncle and the emerald, each of ... light to the spectators;
with such stones of other ... and best esteemed, as being most precious in their ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 2 how ptolemy philadelphus.htm

Vive Jesus. Preface.
... precious stones, having their sight tired by keeping it continually fixed upon the
small lines of their work, are glad to keep before them some fair emerald ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/vive jesus preface.htm

The Best Introduction to this Production Will be the Following ...
... of the gods golden and silver statues, and adorned them with precious stones,"that
I may ... having on its upper side a star set in a carbuncle and an emerald. ...
/.../africanus/the writings of julius africanus/the best introduction to this.htm

Subtopics

Lapidary: One Who Cuts Precious Stones

Precious

Precious Stones

Precious Stones of Great Variety

Precious Stones of Many Colours

Precious Stones used for Adorning the Breastplate of Judgment

Precious Stones used for Adorning the High Priest's Ephod

Precious Stones used for Adorning the Temple

Precious Stones used for Decorating the Person

Precious Stones used for Honoring Idols

Precious Stones used for Ornamenting Royal Crowns