σάρδιον
carnelian, sardius
Where this word appears
Every passage where σάρδιον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 25:7 σάρδιον and sardius stones, and stones for the carved work of the breast-plate, and the full-length robe.
- Exodus 28:17 σάρδιον And you shall interweave with it a texture of four rows of stone; there shall be a row of stones, a sardius, a topaz, and emerald, the first row.
- Exodus 35:9 σάρδιον And every man that is wise in heart among you, let him come and work all things whatever the Lord has commanded.
- Exodus 36:17 σάρδιον And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald;
- Proverbs 25:11 σάρδιον As a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, so is it to speak a wise word.
- Proverbs 25:12 σάρδιον In an ear-ring of gold a precious sardius is also set; so is a wise word to an obedient ear.
- Ezekiel 28:13 σάρδιον You were in the delight of the paradise of God; you have bound upon you every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and you have filled your treasures and your stores in you with gold.
About this word
About this word
σάρδιον (sárdion), “carnelian, sardius,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →