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GREEK · G6134
adamas — adamant
1. properly the untamed, unconquerable : 2. as Substantive adamant , i. e. the hardest metal, probably steel : metaphorically of any thing unalterable , ἔπος ἐρέω ἀδάμαντι πελάσσας having fixed it firm as adamant , (Oracle quoted in Herdotus Historicus) 3. the diamond , (Theophrastus Philosophus) 4. as adjective, metaphorically, the inflexible , of Hades, (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious house.
Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
