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variety of onyx

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  • Heb., but the twelfth in the Greek; it is called sardonyx and comes in the fifth place in Apoc., xxi, 20.
  • But the sardonyx was a finer stone than the amethyst, and he ended by giving me three hundred and fifty livres.
  • Among the chalcedonies are the sardonyx, agates, and cornelian.
  • The cup itself is of a kind of agate, like chalcedony or sardonyx.
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