Verse 18
18. Coral Ramoth, cognate with the Arabic rama, to be blood red. “Probably the red coral, which was highly prized by the ancients.” Winer.
Pearls Hebrew, Gabish. So uncertain is the meaning of this word that Schultens leaves it untranslated. The word means ice, and it is now generally thought to have been the quartz crystal from its being pellucid, like ice. Carey renders it mother-of-pearl.
Price Possession.
Rubies Peninim, The meaning is doubtful probably pearls. Thus most recent commentators. Pearls were in ancient times procured from the Persian Gulf, whose fisheries were pointed out to Nearchus, the admiral of Alexander the Great. In the Assyrian ruins Layard found a gold ear-ring adorned with pearls. ( Nineveh, 3:595.)
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