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(in English "a little coal," "a bright red gem"): eqedach, boreqeth, the former in from qadach "to burn," the latter from baraq "to flash." A brightly flashing stone. A smaragd (Septuagint) or corundum, of green glass color, transparent, and doubly refractive; the emerald (); third stone in the first row m the high priest's breast-plate ().