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Beryl

Part of speech: Noun, Thing

The beryl gemstone.


  • Several color varieties of beryl are used as gemstones. - 34853
  Key words: Beryl, Gemstone, Mineral, Precious-Stone  

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  Words of Wisdom  

And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.   Exodus 28:20 


And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.   Exodus 39:13 


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


The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.   Ezekiel 1:16 


And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.   Ezekiel 10:9 


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 


His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.   Daniel 10:6 


The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.   Revelation 21:20 




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