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Strong's #8658: tarshiysh (pronounced tar-sheesh')

probably of foreign derivation (compare 8659); a gem, perhaps the topaz:--beryl.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tarshı̂ysh

1) a precious stone or semi-precious gem

1a) perhaps a chrysolite, yellow jasper, or other yellow coloured stone

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: probably of foreign derivation [compare H8659]



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Exodus 28:20: "And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold"
Exodus 39:13: "And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold"
Song of Solomon 5:14: "are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid"
Ezekiel 1:16: "of the wheels and their work was like unto the color of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance"
Ezekiel 10:9: "and the appearance of the wheels was as the color of a beryl stone."
Ezekiel 28:13: "the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,"
Daniel 10:6: "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire,"









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