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ראמות , Job 28:18; Ezekiel 27:16; a hard, cretaceous, marine production resembling in figure the stem of a plant, divided into branches. It is of different colours—black, white, and red. The latter is the sort emphatically called coral, as being the most valuable, and usually made into ornaments. This, though no gem, is ranked by the author of the book of Job 28:18 , with the onyx and sapphire. Dr. Good observes, "It is by no means certain what the words here rendered ‘corals and pearls,' and those immediately, afterward rendered ‘rubies and topaz,' really signified. Reiske has given up the inquiry as either hopeless or useless; and Schultens has generally introduced the Hebrew words themselves, and left the reader of the translation to determine as he may. Our common version is, in the main, concurrent with most of the oriental renderings: and I see no reason to deviate from it."

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Watson, Richard. Entry for 'Coral'. Richard Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​wtd/​c/coral.html. 1831-2.
 
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