Dict: smith - SAPPHIRE

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SAPPHIRE - S>@ - (Heb. sappir), a precious stone, apparently of a bright-blue color, set: kjv@Exodus:24:10) the second stone in the second row of the high priest’s breastplate, kjv@Exodus:28:18) extremely precious, kjv@Job:28:16) it was one of the precious stones that ornamented the king of Tyre. kjv@Ezekiel:28:13) The sapphire of the ancients was not our gem of that name, viz. the azure or indigo-blue, crystalline variety of corundum, but our lapis lazuli (ultra-marine).