HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7618
שְׁבוֹ
she.vu — agate
1) a precious stone (in the high priest's breastplate) 1a) probably an agate
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Agate
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G6635
ἀχάτης
achatēs — agate
agate
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כַּדְכֹּד
kad.kod — ruby
a precious stone (maybe ruby, agate)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5125
נוּן
nun — to propagate
1) (Niphal) continue, to increase, propagate 2) (Hiphil) continue, to increase, propagate
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(Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized quartz, probably brought from Sheba, whence its name. In Isa. 54:12 and Ezek. 27:16, this word is the rendering of the Hebrew cadcod, which means “ruddy,” and denotes a variety of minutely crystalline silica more or less in bands of different tints. This word is from the Greek name of a stone found in the river Achates in Sicily.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.