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Jacinth

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

  (λογύριον and in Heb. as leshem (the Revised Version iv. 620) suggests that the latter was yellow quartz or agate. Many Greek and Roman ‘hyacinths,’ used for intaglios and cameos, were probably only garnets.

  James Strahan.

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