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JACINTH

A red, orange, or yellow stone. Some versions translate “jacinth” for Heb. lešem, an engraved stone on the high priest’s breastpiece (Exod. 28:19; 39:12). The LXX renders the Hebrew term ligýrion, which, except in Josephus’ descriptions of the breastpiece (Ant. 3.7.5; BJ 5.5.7), occurs nowhere else. At Rev. 21:20 the NAB, NIV, NKJV, and NRSV translate “jacinth” for Gk. hyákinthos, a course in the foundation of the city wall of the New Jerusalem. The NJB and NKJV read “hyacinth blue” for the adjective hyakínthinos, a color of the riders’ breastplates (Rev. 9:17). Some translations render “amber,” “carnelian,” “feldspar,” “sapphire,” or “turquoise” for these Hebrew and Greek terms.

Joseph E. Jensen






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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