Jewel

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Genesis 24:51 (c) In this passage the servant represents the Holy Spirit who brings gifts from the Father and the Son to the bride who will one day be at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Jewels are made by GOD. Men polish them and make them fit to be worn by the queen. These gems represent people which have been taken by the Lord, worked upon by Him, and prepared to bring joy to His heart throughout eternity. Only the Holy Spirit can do this work in the heart and life of a believer.

 Proverbs 11:22 (a) This gem represents the attractiveness, loveliness and beauty of an unsaved woman. The swine with the snout represents the unrighteous life which this beautiful woman may live. The woman herself needs to be saved, and become a child of GOD, then these gems of beauty will really adorn the person.

 Proverbs 20:15 (a) Beautiful and wise words adorn the lives of those who walk with GOD, and seek to please Him in their conversation.

 Song of Solomon 1:10 (c) This is a lover's comment on the beauty and the sweetness of the one to whom he is attracted. (See also  Song of Solomon 7:1;  Isaiah 61:10). The joints represent her graceful movements and actions, making her attractive in all her work and ministry for her lover. Her words from the mouth are beautiful and her ways are also attractive.

 Ezekiel 16:12 (a) In this way is described the graces and beautiful characteristics which GOD gave to Israel in her balmy days of prosperity. (See also vss.  Ezekiel 16:17 and  Ezekiel 16:39;  Ezekiel 23:26).

 Malachi 3:17 (b) GOD's people are compared to beautiful gems. Through the vicissitudes of life they are polished and made fit for His presence. In Heaven GOD puts together for eternity those Christians who seem best suited to each other, whose nature makes them beautiful together, and probably they were those who lived and served together on the earth. Tares were bound in bundles to be burned, while GOD's people were arranged together to be honored and blessed.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A precious stone; a gem.

(2): ( n.) An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.

(3): ( n.) An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing.

(4): ( n.) A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby.

(5): ( v. t.) To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels.

King James Dictionary

JEW'EL, n. Low L. jocale.

1. An ornament worn by ladies,usually consisting of a precious stone, or set with one or more a pendant worn in the ear. 2. A precious stone. 3. A name expressive of fondness. A mother calls her child, her jewel.

JEW'EL, To dress or adorn with jewels.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Jewel .   Genesis 24:53 ‘the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.’ They were not jewels set in silver and in gold. Ornaments made of gold or silver were in older English called jewels. Now the word is confined to precious stones.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jewel. See Stones, Precious .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the representative in the A.V. of the following terms in the original: נֶזֶם (ne'zem,, a ring), a nose-ring ( Proverbs 11:22;  Isaiah 3:21;  Ezekiel 16:12; everywhere else rendered "earring,"  Genesis 24:22;  Genesis 24:30;  Genesis 24:47; see Jerome on Ezekiel ad loc.; Hartmann's Hebraerin, 2, 166; 3, 205), or an earring ( Genesis 35:4;  Exodus 32:2-3); elsewhere without specifying the part of the person on which it was worn ( Judges 8:24-26;  Exodus 35:32; Job 42, 51;  Proverbs 25:12;  Hosea 2:15). חֲלַי ( Chali ' , so called as Being Polished ) , a necklace or trinket ( Song of Solomon 7:1; "ornament,"  Proverbs 25:12), and חֶלְיָה ( Chelyah ' , fern. of precedo), a necklace or female ornament ( Hosea 2:13). כְּלַי ( Keli ' , an Im p Lement or Vessel of any kind), an article of silver ware or other precious material ( Genesis 1:24-31;  Exodus 3:22;  Exodus 11:2;  Exodus 12:35;  Numbers 26:50-51;  1 Samuel 6:8;  1 Samuel 6:15;  Job 28:17;  Proverbs 20:15), or ally elegant Trappings or piece of finery in dress ( Isaiah 61:10;  Ezekiel 16:7;  Ezekiel 16:39;  Ezekiel 23:16), elsewhere rendered "vessel," etc. , סַגֻלָּה ( Segullah ' , Property ) , wealth or Treasure ( Malachi 3:17; elsewhere usually "peculiar treasure,"  Exodus 19:5;  Psalms 135:4, etc.). (See Dress); (See Precious Stone); etc.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jū´el , jōō´el  : An ornament of gold, silver or of precious stones in the form of armlet, bracelet, anklet, nose-ring, etc. Oriental dress yields itself freely to such adornment, to which there are many allusions in Scripture. a frequent term in Hebrew is kelı̄ ("utensil," "vessel"), coupled with mention of "gold" or "silver" or both (  Genesis 24:53;  Exodus 3:22;  Exodus 11:2;  Exodus 12:35;  Exodus 35:22;  1 Samuel 6:8 ,  1 Samuel 6:15 , etc.; the Revised Version (British and American) in  2 Chronicles 32:27 translations "vessels"). In   Song of Solomon 1:10 , where the King James Version has "rows (of jewels)," the Revised Version (British and American) has "plaits (of hair)"; in  Song of Solomon 7:1 , the word is from a root ḥālāh , meaning "to adorn." In 3 instances in the King James Version "jewel" represents the Hebrew nezem ( Proverbs 11:22;  Isaiah 3:21;  Ezekiel 16:12 ); the American Standard Revised Version changes  Proverbs 11:22 to "ring" Septuagint here = "earring"), and both the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version have "ring" in   Ezekiel 16:12 . The familiar phrase in  Malachi 3:17 , "in that day when I make up my jewels," becomes in the English Revised Version, "in the day that I do make, even a peculiar treasure" (margin "or, wherein I do make a peculiar treasure"), and in the American Standard Revised Version, "even mine own possession, in the day that I make" (margin "or, do this"). See, further, Ornament; Dress; Stones , Precious .