Emerald
6 lines · 5 passages
Emerald in the Bible Dictionary
- (A precious stone)
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Color of the rainbow
Rev 4:3
3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Revelation 4:3 -
Merchandise of, in Tyre
Ezek 27:16; 28:13
16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Ezekiel 27:1613 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 -
Set in the breastplate
Ex 28:18
18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
Exodus 28:18 - Symbolical
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In the foundation of the holy city
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
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
