Lexicon smaragdos: an emerald Original Word: σμάραγδος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: smaragdos Phonetic Spelling: (smar'-ag-dos) Short Definition: an emerald Definition: an emerald. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitionan emerald NASB Translationemerald (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4665: σμάραγδοςσμάραγδος, σμαράγδου, ὁ (but apparently feminine in the earlier writ, cf. Theophrast. lap. 4, 23; in Herodotus its gender cannot be determined; cf. Stephanus Thesaurus, under the word), Latin smaragdus ( A. V. emerald), a transparent precious stone noted especially for its light green color: Revelation 21:19. (From Herodotus down; the Sept.. On the derivation of the word see Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word. On its relation to our 'emerald' (disputed by King, Antique Gems, p. 27ff), see Reihm, HWB, under the word 'Edelsteine', 17; Deane in the ' Bible Educator', vol. ii., p. 350f.)
Strong's emerald. Of uncertain derivation; the emerald or green gem so called -- emerald. |
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