“The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the ten...
Abital is a name with deep roots in Hebrew culture, carrying the meaning of an odd phrase, my father is dew. It’s a unisex name, one that appears in the Bible adorning one of King David’s wives, the one who gave birth to his fifth son. While not as popular globally, it’s...
Those who contend that the united stream of the Euphrates and Tigris is the "river" which "goeth forth from Eden to water the garden," have committed a fatal error in neglecting the true meaning of יָצָא, which is only used of the course of a river from its source ...
so costly as to be justly estimated, as inJob 28:16, nor possessed of sufficient hardness ("inutile scalpturae," Pliny, 1.c.) to correspond with its use in Exodus 28, it is probable that the Hebrew term denotes the true sapphire, which occurs in notices of ancient gems.SEESAPPHIRE....
area. This great trunk road connected Egypt in the south with Syria and Mesopotamia in the north. It is one of the oldest roads in the world and is called the Way of Horus by the ancient Egyptians, and in the Bible, it is known as the Way of the Land of the Philistines (Ex. 13...
I loved that the repeated answer comes from different people when problems arise- “Pray!” The establishment of daily oral Bible reading with household members creates a very real unity that becomes unbreakable. If you enjoy clean, historical fiction about the Civil War with threads of faith, ...
Earth-from it shall issue [means to procure] bread, Though under it [its bosom] has been overturned as [by] fire: A sapphire-place [are] its stones And gold-clods [are] his [that explores it]. A beaten [path thither]-bird of prey has not known it, Nor hawk's eye scanned it;...
The terms relative to color, occurring in the Bible, may be arranged in two classes, the first including those applied to the description of natural objects, the second those artificial mixtures which were employed in dyeing or painting. In an advanced state of art, such a distinction can ...
As little difficulty is presented by the shoham: call it onyx, sardonyx, emerald, sapphire, teryl, or sardius, it would be hard indeed if some of these precious stones could not be found in any conceivable locality to support even the most far-fetched and improbable conjecture. That Havilah...