Emerald
σμάραγδοςStrong’s G4665smaragdos
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Smaragdos is the Greek word usually translated “emerald”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, 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
- emerald 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary
σμάραγδος smaragdos · emerald
σμάραγδος, -ου, ἡ (and in late writers also ὁ), [in LXX: Exo.28:9 (שֹׁהַם) Exo.36:17 (Exo.39:10) (בָּרֶקֶת), Eze.28:13 (יַהֲלֹם), etc. ;] emerald or other trans parent green stone (LS, see word; DB, iv, 620; Swete, Ap., 67, 288): Rev.21:19.† (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.