A.sardonyx, Philem.216, Gal.5.46, AP1.116, J.AJ3.7.5, BJ5.5.7, Apoc.21.20, Ps.-Plu.Fluv.20.4, etc. The stone was called ὄνυξ when the dark ground was simply spotted or streaked with white, but σαρδόνυξ if the different colours were disposed in layers.
σαρδόνυξ , υ^χος, ὁ, (σάρδιον)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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