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Easton's Bible Dictionary
Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen 28:18; Josh 24:26, 27 1 Sam 7:12, etc.). They were gathered out of cultivated fields (Isa 5:2; comp. 2 Kings 3:19...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a German missionary at Jerusalem, in 1868. It was 3 1/2 feet high and 2 in breadth and in thickness,...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Rev 4:3, R.V., "sardius;" Heb. odhem; LXX., Gr. sardion, from a root meaning "red"), a gem of a blood-red colour. It was called "sardius" because obtained from Sardis in Lydia. It is enumerated...