Emerald
σμαράγδινοςStrong’s G4664smaragdinos
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Smaragdinos is the Greek word usually translated “emerald”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.”
Meaning
Usually translated “emerald”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- an emerald 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
σμαράγδινος smaragdinos · emerald
σμαράγδινος (σμάραγδος, which see), 1. of emerald (Luc., V.H., ii, 11). 2. As in π. (Deiss., BS, 267), emerald-green: Rev.4:3 (for the construction, see Swete, in l; Zorell, see word).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “emerald” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EM'ERALD, noun
[Latin smaragdus.]
A mineral and a precious stone, whose colors are a pure, lively green, varying to a pale, yellowish, bluish, or grass green. It is always crystallized, and almost always appears in regular, hexahedral prisms, more or less perfect, and sometimes slightly modified by truncations on the edges, or on the solid angles. It is a little harder than quartz, becomes electric by friction, is often transparent, sometimes only translucent, and before the blowpipe is fusible into a whitish enamel or glass. The finest emeralds have been found in Peru.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.