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Coral
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More precious in ancient times than now, when it is more easily procured (Job 28:18; Ezekiel 27:16). The red coral is the stony skeleton of a red zoophyte. In the Mediterranean, on the African coast off Tunis, attached to the rock at a considerable depth, and broken off from them by long hooked poles, and thus drawn out (Hebrew for "price," Job 28:18, is meshek , "the drawing out".) From Carthage (where Tunis now stands) the rough coral was imported to the mother city Tyre, and there manufactured into ornaments to be purchased by merchants for the women of Syria. Its tree-like growth is implied by its name ramoth , from raam "to be high"; others from the Sanskrit ramye , "pleasant."
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Coral'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/coral.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Coral'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/coral.html. 1949.
