Original Word: σαρδόνυξ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sardonux
Pronunciation: sar-DOH-nooks
Phonetic Spelling: (sar-don'-oox)
KJV: sardonyx
NASB: sardonyx
Word Origin: [from the base of G4556 (σάρδιος - sardius) and onux "the nail of a finger", hence the "onyx" stone)]

1. a "sardonyx", i.e. the gem so called

sardonyx.

From the base of sardios and onux (the nail of a finger; hence the "onyx" stone); a "sardonyx", i.e. The gem so called -- sardonyx.

see GREEK sardios

Word Origin
from sardion and onux (a gem)
Definition
sardonyx
NASB Translation
sardonyx (1).

STRONGS NT 4557: σαρδιονυξ

σαρδιονυξ, equivalent to σαρδόνυξ (which see): Revelation 21:20 Lachmann

STRONGS NT 4557: σαρδόνυξσαρδόνυξ (Lachmann σαρδιονυξ), σαρδονυχος, ὁ, (σάρδιον and ὄνυξ), sardonyx, a precious stone marked by the red colors of the carnelian (sard) and the white of the onyx (B. D. under the word; Riehm, HWB, under the word Edelsteine 12): Revelation 21:20. (Josephus, Plutarch, Ptolemy, others; (Genesis 2:12 Aq. (Montf.)).)

Forms and Transliterations

σαρδονυξ σαρδόνυξ sardonux sardonyx sardónyx

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