Topic
Sapphire
8 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 28:18Easton · Smith · Nave Set in the breastplate
And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- Ezekiel 28:13Easton · Smith · Nave A precious stone
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy…
- Exodus 24:10Easton · Smith
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
- Job 28:16Smith · Nave A precious stone
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- Ezekiel 1:26Easton · Nave The color of the expanse
¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
- Job 28:6Nave A precious stone
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
- Isaiah 54:11Nave A precious stone
¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- Revelation 21:19Nave Seen in the foundation of the New Jerusalem in John' s apocalyptic vision
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
Associated with diamonds (Ex. 28:18) and emeralds (Ezek. 28:13); one of the stones in the high priest’s breastplate. It is a precious stone of a sky-blue colour, probably the lapis lazuli, brought from Babylon. The throne of God is described as of the colour of a sapphire (Ex. 24:10; comp. Ezek. 1:26).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
saf'-ir.
See STONES, PRECIOUS.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.