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( ÷ñõóüðñáóïò , from ÷ñõóüò , ‘gold,’ and ðñÜóïí , ‘a leek’)
This stone is the tenth foundation of the wall of the New Jerusalem (Rev_21:20). The name is now applied to an apple-green variety of chalcedony or hornstone, prized in jewellery and sometimes used for mural decorations. But this chalcedony was probably unknown to the ancients, and the ÷ñõóüðñáóïò of the Greeks was ‘not improbably our chrysoberyl’ (Encyclopaedia Britannica 11 vi. 321). The word is not found in either of the Septuagint lists of precious stones (Exo_28:17-20, Eze_28:13) with which the writer of Rev. was familiar.
James Strahan.