Strong's #3135: margarites (pronounced mar-gar-ee'-tace)

from margaros (a pearl-oyster); a pearl:--pearl.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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margaritēs

1) a pearl

2) a proverb, i.e. a word of great value

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from margaros (a pearl-oyster)

Citing in TDNT: 4:472, 564

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Matthew 7:6: "neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample"
Matthew 13:45: "man, seeking goodly pearls:"
Matthew 13:46: "Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all"
1 Timothy 2:9: "or gold, or pearls, or costly array."
Revelation 17:4: "precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in"
Revelation 18:12: "precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple,"
Revelation 18:16: "precious stones, and pearls!"
Revelation 21:21: "twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate"
Revelation 21:21: "every several gate was of one pearl: and the"