Onyx

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Precious stone

• Job 28:16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
• Ezekiel 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

Used in erecting the temple

• 1 Chronicles 29:2 Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God — gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and slabs…

Seen in the foundations of the city of the New Jerusalem in John's apocalyptic vision

• Revelation 21:20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

Exported from Havilah

• Genesis 2:12 And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

Used in the breastplate

• Exodus 28:9–12 Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel: six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth. Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold fi…
• Exodus 28:20 and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
• Exodus 39:6 They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.
• Exodus 39:13 and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.

Contributed by Israelites for the priests' garments

• Exodus 25:7 and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
• Exodus 35:9 and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.