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What is an Agate?
        AG'ATE
     Ex 39:12. A precious stone, variegated chalcedony, translucent or opaque. It is often banded in delicate parallel lines, waving or zigzag in their course, and of white, tendon-like, wax-like, pale and dark brown, black or sometimes bluish colors. It is sometimes clouded, and at other times presents a group of figures disposed with so much regularity as to seem like a work of art, showing trees, plants, rivers, clouds, buildings, and human beings. The name is supposed by some to be derived from the river Achates, in Sicily, where the stone was formerly found in great abundance. The agate of Isa 54:12 and Eze 27:16 (a different Hebrew word) was doubtless the ruby. The agate was the second stone in the third row of the high priest's breastplate. Ex 28:19.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'agate' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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