Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 39:11
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
[See comments on Ex 39:2].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
a diamond: Exo 28:18, Eze 28:13, The word yahalom may mean the diamond, from halam, to beat, smite, because of its extreme hardness, by which it will beat to pieces the other stones. It is a fine pellucid substance never debased with any admixture of other matter; susceptible of elegant tinges from metal-line particles; giving fire with steel; not fermenting with acid menstrua; scarcely calcinable by any degree of fire; and of one simple and permanent appearance in all lights. It is the hardest and most valuable of all gems; when pure, perfectly clear and pellucid as the clearest water, and eminently distinguished from all other substances by its vivid splendour, and the brightness of its reflections.
Reciprocal: Rev 4:3 – like unto