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Amethyst
Description: purple
Vine's: "Primarily meaning 'not drunken' (a, negative, and methu, 'wine). Pliny says that the reason for its name lay in the fact that in color it nearly approached that of wine, but did not actually do so" (26).
In the temple: New Covenant blood
Representation: New wine and New Covenant
Strong's Concordance
Hebrew Definitions:
achlamah (306): perhaps. from 2492 (and thus dream-stone); a gem, prob. the amethyst.
chalam (2492): prop. To bind firmly, i.e. (by impl.) to be (causat. to make) plump; also (through the fig. sense of dumbness) to dream:—(cause to) dream (-er), be in good liking, recover.
Greek Definition:
amethustos (271): the "amethyst" (supposed to prevent intoxication):—amethyst.
References: a stone in the breastplate and New Jerusalem foundation
Description: purple
Vine's: "Primarily meaning 'not drunken' (a, negative, and methu, 'wine). Pliny says that the reason for its name lay in the fact that in color it nearly approached that of wine, but did not actually do so" (26).
In the temple: New Covenant blood
Representation: New wine and New Covenant
Strong's Concordance
Hebrew Definitions:
achlamah (306): perhaps. from 2492 (and thus dream-stone); a gem, prob. the amethyst.
chalam (2492): prop. To bind firmly, i.e. (by impl.) to be (causat. to make) plump; also (through the fig. sense of dumbness) to dream:—(cause to) dream (-er), be in good liking, recover.
Greek Definition:
amethustos (271): the "amethyst" (supposed to prevent intoxication):—amethyst.
References: a stone in the breastplate and New Jerusalem foundation
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