LIGURE

Probably the same with the jacinth, a stone in the high priest’s breastplate, Ex 28:19; 39:12, said to have been of a deep and brilliant red color, with a tinge of yellow, and transparent.

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Ligure. 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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LIGURE. → A precious stone Ex 28:19; 39:12

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ligure. Ligure, n. a kind of jewel or precious stone

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Lig″ure (lĭg″ū̍r; 277), n. [[L. ligurius, Gr. λιγύριον, λιγγούριον, λιγκούριον, λυγκούριον, equiv. to Heb. leshem.]] A kind of precious stone. The third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. Ex. xxviii. 19.