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Sapphire

Part of speech: Noun, Thing

The sapphire gemstones.


  • Jewelry should not be worn in food production areas. - 345
  Key words: Gemstone, Jewel, Jewelry, Mineral, Sapphire, Sapphires  

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Question: What is a mineral?
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Question: Where do minerals come from?
  Answer: Most minerals are obtained by mining the ground or extracted from water. - 254

Question: What are nutritional minerals?
  Answer: Nutritional minerals are inorganic elements that are essential to the nutrition of humans, animals, and plants. These minerals are normally obtained by eating natural foods. Examples of nutritional minerals are: calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, potassium, and sodium. - 255


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  Words of Wisdom  

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.   Exodus 24:10 


And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.   Exodus 28:18 


And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.   Exodus 39:11 


The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.   Job 28:6 


It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.   Job 28:16 


His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.   Song of Solomon 5:14 


O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.   Isaiah 54:11 


Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.   Lamentations 4:7, 8 


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.   Ezekiel 1:26 


Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.   Ezekiel 10:1 


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 pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.   Ezekiel 28:13 


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;   Revelation 21:19 




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