enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Gemstones in the Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstones_in_the_Bible

    Black Onyx Onyx. Onyx - Hebrew שֹׁהַם‬‎ shoham, Greek ὀνύχινος onychinos, Latin lapis onychinus. The eleventh stone of the breastplate in the Hebrew and the Vulgate (Exodus 28:20, 39:13), representing the tribe of Joseph. In the Septuagint it is the twelfth stone and the fifth in Ezekiel 28:13 in the Hebrew, but the twelfth ...

  3. Gemstone Meanings: Power and Significance of the 25 Most ...

    www.aol.com/gemstone-meanings-power-significance...

    OnyxOnyx is a smooth opaque black gemstone known to assist in grounding oneself and providing strength,” Salzer says. “The deep black color absorbs negative energy and keeps us steady.”

  4. Bdellium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdellium

    "Bdellium" is the common English translation in the Bible for the Hebrew bedolach (בְּדֹלַח), which appears in Genesis 2:12 and Numbers 11:7. In Genesis, it is given as a product of Havilah, where it is listed along with other precious items gold and onyx. [11]

  5. Onycha - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onycha

    Onycha is a play on the word onyx which was a gem. The onyx most esteemed by the ancients was the black gem. [30] The Hebrew word for onyx was shoham and “Braun traces shoham to the Arabic sachma,'blackness:' 'Of such a color,' says he, 'are the Arabian [onyxes], which have a black ground-color.'

  6. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

    The position that metaphysical disputes have no meaning or no significant point is called metaphysical or ontological deflationism. [124] This view is opposed by so-called serious metaphysicians, who contend that metaphysical disputes are about substantial features of the underlying structure of reality. [125]

  7. Philosopher's stone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher's_stone

    The English philosopher Sir Thomas Browne in his spiritual testament Religio Medici (1643) identified the religious aspect of the quest for the philosopher's Stone when declaring: The smattering I have of the Philosophers stone, (which is something more than the perfect exaltation of gold) hath taught me a great deale of Divinity.

  8. Aqeeq - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqeeq

    A geode of chalcedony richly colored by hematite that gives it its rusty hues and marks it as Akik [contradictory]. Aqeeq, akik or aqiq (Arabic: العقيق) means quartz in Arabic, and agate in Turkish, however in the context of rings usually refers to a ring set with a chalcedony stone.

  9. Outline of metaphysics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_metaphysics

    Descartes' metaphysical thought is found in his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and Principles of Philosophy (1644). Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) – one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. He defined "God" as a singular self-subsistent substance, and both matter and thought as attributes of such.