Agate
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(Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high priest (Ex 28:19; Ex 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.
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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