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([[Text:EBD:Hebrew language|Heb]]. shebo), a [[Text:EBD:Stones, Precious|precious stone ]] in the [[Text:EBD:Breastplate|breast-plate ]] of the [[Text:EBD:High priest|high priest ]] (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized quartz, probably brought from [[Text:EBD:Sheba|Sheba]], whence its name. In Isa. 54:12 and Ezek. 27:16, this word is the rendering of the Hebrew cadcod, which means "ruddy," and denotes a variety of minutely crystalline silica more or less in bands of different tints.

This word is from the [[Text:EBD:Greek |Greek]] name of a stone found in the [[Text:EBD:River|river ]] Achates in Sicily.

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