Onyx - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: onyxEphod
A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews being a covering for the back and breast held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod The ephod for the priests was of plain linen that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front...
Jasponyx
An onyx part or all of whose layers consist of jasper...
Onyx
Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color It is used for making cameos the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground...
Sardonyx
A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers...
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