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It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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Verse 16. Dyed, and so forth Hebrew cethem ophir, ( Bible.) “the shut up” (gold, though the Vulg. Septuagint and so forth vary in the interpretation) “of Ophir.” This country was famous for its gold. Calmet.—Its situation is not clearly ascertained. S. Jerom seems to have placed it in India, which Josephus, “in the golden country,” now Malacca.—Stone. Prot. onyx. Hebrew shoham ( Bible.) means, probably, the emerald. Genesis 2:12. Calmet.—But these names are very indeterminate. Theodotion, from whom grater part of this chapter is inserted in the Septuagint has “the gold of Ophir, and the precious onyx and sapphire.” Bible.
or, lapis lazuli
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