Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom [is] better than rubies A sort of precious stones: or, than precious stones F26 in general; so the Targum and Septuagint, Ara...
Coral. [N] [E]( Ezekiel 27:16 ) A production of the sea, formed by minute animals called zoophytes. It is their shell or house. It takes various form...
Pearl [N] [S](Heb. gabish, Job 28:18 ; Gr. margarites, Matthew 7:6 ; 13:46 ; Revelation 21:21 ). The pearl oyster is found in the Persian Gulf and...
Every severalEach individual; each one separately.And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The f...
Ver. 45 & 46. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man This parable may be understood of Christ's seeking, finding, and purchasing hi...
Twelve pearls (dwdeka margaritai). These gate towers (pulwne) were mentioned in verses Exodus 12 . Each of these (cf. Isaiah 54:12 ) is a pearl, on...
Overview - Matthew 7 1?Christ, continuing his sermon on the mount, reproves rash judgment, etc. 28?Christ ends his sermon, and the people are astonish...
Bdellium [N] [S]occurs only in Genesis 2:12 , where it designates a product of the land of Havilah; and in Numbers 11:7 , where the manna is likened...
Song of Solomon 1:10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels] Or beautiful as turtledoves, as the Septuagint; or it may be rendered with turtles, s...
CORAL kor'-al (ra'moth, peninim): The red coral or precious coral, Corallium rubrum, is confined to the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas. It is the ca...
Overview - Revelation 18 1?Babylon is fallen. 4?People commanded to depart out of her. 9?The kings of the earth, with the merchants and mariners, la...
1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones Not in quality, but in quantity, large stones, fit to lay in the foundation; strong...
Overview - Matthew 13 1?The parable of the sower and the seed; 18?the exposition of it. 24?The parable of the tares; 31?of the mustard seed; 33?of the...
Overview - Revelation 21 1?A new heaven and a new earth. 10?The heavenly Jerusalem, with a full description thereof. 23?She needs no sun, the glory of...
CRYSTAL kris'-tal: In English Versions of the Bible the word is probably intended to signify rock-crystal, crystallized quartz. This the Greeks calle...
Diadem. [E]What the diadem of the Jews was we know not. That of other nations of antiquity was a fillet of silk, two inches broad, bound round the he...
Overview - 1?Timothy 2 1?That it is meet to pray and give thanks for all men, and the reason why. 9?How women should be attired. 12?They are not perm...
Overview - Revelation 17 1?A woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup in her hand sits upon the beast; 5?which is great Babylon, the mo...
Girdle, [N] [E]an essential article of dress in the East, and worn by both men and women. The common girdle was made of leather, ( 2?Kings 1:8 ; Mat...
Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal Or, darker than blackness; or, dark through blackness F25; by reason of the famine, and because o...