Onyx appears 11 times in the Scripture.
It was one of the jewels in the fourth row of the high priest’s breastplate.
Genesis 2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Exodus 25:7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
Exodus 28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus 28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
Exodus 35:9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
Exodus 35:27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Exodus 39:6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
Exodus 39:13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
1 Chronicles 29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
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