Job 28:18
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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Lamentations 4:7
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
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פָּנִין
pânîyn · paw-neen'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
probably a pearl (as round)
Strong's KJV usage: ruby.
Strong's first: Job 28:18Strong's last: Lamentations 4:7
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No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
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For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
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There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
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Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
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Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
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ruby
RU'BY, noun [Latin rubeo, to be red.]
1. A precious stone; a mineral of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red; but its parts vary in color, and hence it is called sapphire ruby or orange red, and by some vermeille or rubicel.
There are two kinds of ruby the oriental or corundum, and the spinelle. The latter is distinguishable from the former by its color and crystallization.
The ruby is next in hardness and value to the diamond, and highly esteemed in jewelry.
2. Redness; red color.
3. Any thing red.
4. A blain; a blotch; a carbuncle. [The ruby is said to be the stone called by Pliny a carbuncle.]
Ruby of arsenic or sulphur, is the realgar, or red combination of arsenic and sulphur.
Ruby of zink, is the red blend.
Rock ruby the amethystizontes of the ancients, is the most value species of garnet.
RU'BY, verb transitive To make red.
RU'BY, adjective Of the color of the ruby; red; as ruby lips.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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