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Chalcedony

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Chalcedony. One of the stones described as forming the foundation of the new Jerusalem. Revelation 21:19. Chalcedony is ordinarily understood to be a species of agate, milky white or pale yellow, often with a wavy internal structure. Some liken it in color and want of transparency to skimmed milk. Another description represents it as of the color of a pale flame, shining out of doors, obscure in a house, not easily cut, and attributes to it the tower of attracting light substances. Also it has been supposed to be turquoise, carbuncle, or ruby, or an inferior kind of emerald.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Chalcedony'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​c/chalcedony.html. 1893.
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