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σμάραγδος

smáragdos · G4665 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. emerald

    Emerald, green in color (see λίθος (líthos, G3037), sense 3)

    Examples

    Revelation 21:19 The foundation stones of the city wall were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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In the other Testament 1 word
בָּרֶקֶת bâreqeth · H1304 · emerald
Greek σμάραγδος specifically denotes emerald (green precious stone), while Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (traditionally 'carbuncle') refers to a sparkling/flashing gemstone whose precise identity is disputed among scholars but appears in overlapping apocalyptic/ornamental contexts in LXX rendering.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Emerald2.33
The noun names the precious green gemstone. John describes the New Jerusalem's foundations: “The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald” (Revelation 21:19).
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σμάραγδοςsmáragdos · G4665σμαράγδινος smarágdinos · G4664 · emerald-like, of emerald · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σμαράγδου, ὁ (but apparently feminine in the earlier writ, cf. Theophrast. lap. 4, 23; in…
σμαράγδου, ὁ (but apparently feminine in the earlier writ, cf. Theophrast. lap. 4, 23; in Herodotus its gender cannot be determined; cf. Stephanus Thesaurus, under the word), Latinsmaragdus (A. V. emerald), a transparent precious stone noted especially for its light green color: Rev 21:19. (From Herodotus down; the Sept.. On the derivation of the word see Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word. On its relation to our 'emerald' (disputed by King, Antique Gems, p. 27ff), see Reihm, HWB, under the word 'Edelsteine', 17; Deane in the 'Bible Educator', vol. ii., p. 350f.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Precious and Semiprecious Stones and Substances1 occurrence

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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