Isaiah 54:12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones. Rather, as R.V., "pinnacles." The word is derived from that for "sun," and appears to denote those parts of the building which glitter in the sun's rays. Compare the Arab "minaret, used primarily of a lantern or lighthouse. "Agates" (Ezekiel 27:16), "sparkling stone, perhaps "rubies' (R.V.). (Prof. J. Skinner, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. |
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