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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
A
light
blue
gem, next to the
diamond
in hardness
(
Ex. 24:10
10
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. (Exodus 24:10)
). Second stone in second row of
high
priest
’s
breastplate
(
Ex. 28:18
18
And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. (Exodus 28:18)
). A foundation stone of the holy
Jerusalem
(
Rev. 21:19
19
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; (Revelation 21:19)
).
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Sapphire Ring
When
Moses
, and the
elders
, went up into the mount to
God
“there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone” (
Ex. 24:10
10
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. (Exodus 24:10)
). In
Ezekiel
’s vision, above the
firmament
, was seen the “
likeness
of a
throne
as the appearance of a sapphire stone” (
Ezek. 1:26
26
And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. (Ezekiel 1:26)
). It was one of the
stones
in the
breastplate
, and one that garnished the foundation of the holy
Jerusalem
. It is symbolical of heavenly
glory
(
Ex. 28:18
18
And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. (Exodus 28:18)
;
Rev. 21:19
19
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; (Revelation 21:19)
).
The word
occurs in
Job 28:6,16
6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. (Job 28:6)
16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. (Job 28:16)
;
Song of
Solomon
5:14
14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. (Song of Solomon 5:14)
;
Isaiah 54:11
11
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. (Isaiah 54:11)
;
Lamentations 4:7
7
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: (Lamentations 4:7)
;
Ezekiel 10:1
1
Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. (Ezekiel 10:1)
and
Ezekiel 28:13
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. (Ezekiel 28:13)
. Probably an azure or sky-
blue
stone. Some suppose it was the
Lapis-lazuli
, others identify it with the modern sapphire.
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Lapis-lazuli
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
telling out: recounting
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