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ἴασπις

íaspis · G2393 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. jasper

    Jasper; probably green in color (see λίθος (líthos, G3037), sense 3)

    Examples

    Revelation 4:3 And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.

    Revelation 21:11 having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very valuable stone, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

    Revelation 21:18 The material of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
יַהֲלֹם yahălôm · H3095 · diamond?
Hebrew יַהֲלֹם (diamond) serves as the LXX rendering for Greek ἴασπις (jasper) in prophetic gemstone lists (Ezekiel 28:13), though the two terms denote distinct precious stones in modern mineralogy—the alignment reflects ancient identification practices or translational overlap in gem terminology rather than modern taxonomic equivalence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Jasper2.30
In Revelation 21:19, of the New Jerusalem's foundation stones it is written, “The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire,” naming this precious stone directly.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἰασπιδος, ἡ (from Plato down), jasper; a precious stone of divers colors (for some are…
ἰασπιδος, ἡ (from Plato down), jasper; a precious stone of divers colors (for some are purple, others blue, others green, and others of the color of brass; Pliny, h. n. 37, 37 (8)): Rev 4:3; Rev 21:11, Rev 21:18f. (But many think (questionably) the diamond to be meant here; others the precious opal; see Riehm, HWB, under the word Edelsteine, 8 and 10; B. D. under the word ; cf. 'Bible Educator' 2:352.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Precious and Semiprecious Stones and Substances4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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