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ligure |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ligure \Lig"ure\ (l[i^]g"[-u]r; 277), n. [L. ligurius Gr ligy`rion, liggoy`rion, ligkoy`rion, lygkoy`rion, equiv. to Heb. leshem.] A kind of precious stone. The third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. --Ex. xxviii. 19. From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Ligure (Heb. leshem) occurs only in Ex 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of a stone in the third row on the high priest's breastplate. Some have supposed that this stone was the same as the jacinth (q.v.), others that it was the opal. There is now no mineral bearing this name The ligurite" is so named from Liguria in Italy, where it was found
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