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<p> The first in the fourth row of precious stones in the high priest's breast-plate (&nbsp;Exodus 28:20; &nbsp;Exodus 39:13), [[Hebrew]] &nbsp;tarshish , the tartessus stone, found in Spain. Sea green, pale blue, yellow, and almost white, are its various colors. The color of the cherubic wheels (&nbsp;Ezekiel 1:16; &nbsp;Ezekiel 10:9). In &nbsp;Ezekiel 28:13 it is one of the [[Tyrian]] king's treasures, margin: chrysolite. Set in rings of gold (&nbsp;Song of [[Solomon]] 5:14); not as Smith's [[Bible]] Dictionary, "his wrists are circlets of gold full set with topazes,' but the hands bent in are compared to beautiful rings in which beryl is set, as the nails are in the fingers The body of the man seen in vision (&nbsp;Daniel 10:6) resembled it. In &nbsp;Revelation 21:19-20, the city's eighth foundation, the chrysolite being the seventh. The aquamarine, according to Schleusner. </p>

<p> [[Beryl]] (&nbsp;βήρυλλος [&nbsp;Revelation 21:20], a word of unknown etymology) is a mineral which differs little from the emerald except in colour. It never exhibits the deep rich green of that gem, being in general pale green, and sometimes yellowish, bluish, brownish, or colourless. Its finer varieties, which are transparent, are called aquamarine. It usually takes the form of long six-sided prisms, vertically striated. It was much prized as a gem-stone by the ancients, and very fine specimens of Greek and [[Roman]] engraving in beryl are extant. Its great abundance in modern times has depreciated its value. In Revised Version margin of the OT, ‘beryl’ stands for <i> shôham </i> , which Flinders Petrie ( <i> Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> &nbsp; iv. 620b) identifies with green felspar. </p> <p> James Strahan. </p>

<div> &nbsp;1: Βήρυλλος &nbsp;(Strong'S #969 — Noun — berullos — bay'-rool-los ) </div> <p> "beryl," is a precious stone of a sea-green color, &nbsp;Revelation 21:20 (cp. &nbsp; Exodus 28:20 ). </p>

<p> &nbsp;Beryl. Beryl, (Hebrew, &nbsp;tarshish), occurs in &nbsp;Exodus 28:20. It is generally supposed that the &nbsp;tarshish derives its name from the place so called, in Spain. Beryl is a mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. By &nbsp;tarshish, the modern yellow topaz is probably intended, while in &nbsp;Revelation 21:20 a different stone is perhaps referred to, probably the mineral now called beryl, which is identical with the emerald except in color, being a light green or bluish-green. </p>

<p> &nbsp;תרשיש , a pellucid gem of a bluish green colour, whence it is called by the lapidaries, <em> aqua marina. </em> Its Hebrew name is a word also for the same reason given to the sea, &nbsp; Psalms 48:7 . It is found in the East Indies, Peru, Siberia, and Tartary. It has a brilliant appearance, and is generally transparent. It was the tenth stone belonging to the high priest's pectoral, &nbsp;Exodus 28:10; &nbsp;Exodus 28:20; &nbsp;Revelation 21:20 . </p>

<p> <strong> BERYL </strong> . See [[Jewels]] and [[Precious]] Stones. </p>

<p> is the uniform rendering in the Auth. Vers. only of the Heb. &nbsp;תִּרְשִׁישׁ, &nbsp;tarshish' (so called, according to Gesenius, as being brought from Tarshish), and the Gr. &nbsp;βήρυλλος, a precious stone, the first in the fourth row on the breastplate of the high-priest (&nbsp;Exodus 28:20; &nbsp;Exodus 39:13). The color of the wheels in Ezekiel's vision was as the color of a beryl-stone (&nbsp;Ezekiel 1:16; &nbsp;Ezekiel 10:9); it is mentioned among the treasures of the King of [[Tyre]] in &nbsp;Ezekiel 28:13, where the marginal reading is &nbsp;chrysolite; in &nbsp;Song of Solomon 5:14, as being set in rings of gold; and in &nbsp;Daniel 10:6, the body of the man whom Daniel saw in vision is said to be like the beryl. In &nbsp;Revelation 21:19, the beryl is the 8th foundation of the city, the chrysolite being the 7th. In &nbsp;Tobit 13:17, is a prophetic prayer that the streets of [[Jerusalem]] may be paved with beryl. In &nbsp;Exodus 28:20, the Sept. renders &nbsp;tarshish by "chrysolite," &nbsp;χρυσόλιθος, while they render the 11th stone, &nbsp;שֹׁה &nbsp;— &nbsp;ם, &nbsp;shoham, by "beryl," &nbsp;βηρύλλιον. In Ezekiel f, 16, they have- &nbsp;θαρσείς; in 10:9, &nbsp;λίθος &nbsp;ἄνθρακος; and 28:13, &nbsp;ἄνθραξ, in &nbsp;Song of Solomon 5:14, and in &nbsp;Daniel 10:6, &nbsp;θαρσίς &nbsp;. his variety of rendering shows the uncertainty under which the old interpreters labored as to the stone actually meant. (See [[Gem]]). [[Josephus]] takes it to have been the &nbsp;chrysolite, a golden-colored gem, the topaz of more recent authors, found in [[Spain]] (Pliny 37:109), whence its name &nbsp;tarshish (see Braun, &nbsp;De Vest. Sac. Heb. lib. 2, c. 18, &nbsp;§ 193). Luther suggests turquoise, while others have thought that amber was meant. Kalisch, in the two passages of Exodus, translates tarshish by chrysolite, which he describes as usually green, but with different degrees of shade, generally transparent, but often only translucent-harder than glass, but not so hard as quartz. The passage in &nbsp;Revelation 21:20, is adverse to this view. Schleusner (1, 446) says the &nbsp;βήρυλλος is aqua-marine. "The beryl is a gem of the genus emerald, but less valuable than the emerald. It differs from the precious emerald in not possessing any of the oxide of chrome. The colors of the beryl are grayish-green, blue, yellow, and sometimes nearly white" (Humble, &nbsp;Dict. Geol. p. 30)&nbsp;. &nbsp;— [[Penny]] Cyclopaedia, s.v.; Smith's &nbsp;Dict. of Class. Antiq. s.v. Beryllus. (See [[Onyx]]). </p>