Word Summary
hyakinthos: hyacinth
Original Word: ὑάκινθοςTransliteration: hyakinthos
Phonetic Spelling: (hoo-ak'-in-thos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: hyacinth
Meaning: hyacinth
Strong's Concordance
jacinth, a deep blue colored gem
Of uncertain derivation; the "hyacinth" or "jacinth", i.e. Some gem of a deep blue color, probably the zirkon -- jacinth.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5192: ὑάκινθοςὑάκινθος,
ὑακίνθου,
ὁ,
hyacinth, the name of a flower (
Homer and other poets;
Theophrastus), also of a precious stone of the same color, i. e. dark-blue verging toward black (
A. V. jacinth (so
R. V. with marginal reading
sapphire); cf.
B. D., under the word
; Riehm, under the word Edelsteine 9) (Philo, Joseph, Galen, Heliodorus, others; Pliny, h. n. 37, 9, 41): Revelation 21:20.