Sapphire
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Sapphire in the Bible Dictionary
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A precious stone
Job 28:6, 16; Isa 54:11; Ezek 28:13
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job 28:616 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job 28:1611 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah 54:1113 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 -
The color of the expanse
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 -
Seen in the foundation of the New Jerusalem in John’s apocalyptic vision
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.
