Word Summary
topazion: a topaz
Original Word: τοπάζιονTransliteration: topazion
Phonetic Spelling: (top-ad'-zee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a topaz
Meaning: a topaz
Strong's Concordance
topaz.
Neuter of a presumed derivative (alternately) of topazos (a "topaz"; of uncertain origin); a gem, probably the chrysolite -- topaz.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5116: τοπάζιοντοπάζιον,
τοπαζιου,
τό (neuter of the adjective
τοπαζιος, from
τόπαζος),
topaz, a greenish-yellow precious stone (our chrysolith (see
BB. DD., especially
Riehm, under the word Edelsteine 18)):
Revelation 21:20 (
Diodorus,
Strabo; the
Sept. for
פִּטְדָה,
Exodus 28:17;
Exodus 36:17 (
); Ezekiel 28:13. The Greek writings more commonly use the form τόπαζος).