lapis lazuli
lapis lazuli, of which two chief kinds, κυανῆ and χρυσῆ, are mentioned by Thphr. Lap. 23, 37, D.P. 1105; cf. LXX Ex. 24.10, al., J. AJ 3.7.5, Peripl.M.Rubr. 39. (Cf. Hebr. sappīr, perh. not Semitic.)
The corpus record
σάπφειρ-ος
sappheiros · ἡ
lapis lazuli
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Where it lives
- Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
- Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
- Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 1 · 1.9/10k
- Job 2 · 1.5/10k
- Ezechiel 4 · 1.38/10k
- Exodus 3 · 1.27/10k
- Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
- Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- σάπφειρος · sappheiros New Testament, Revelation 21.19 (DIORISIS sentence 442)
- σαπφείρου · sappheirou Septuaginta, Canticum 5
- σαπφείρου · sappheirou Septuaginta, Exodus 24
- σάπφειρος · sappheiros Septuaginta, Exodus 28
- σάπφειρος · sappheiros Septuaginta, Exodus 36
- σαπφείρου · sappheirou Septuaginta, Ezechiel 10
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.