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     * a diamond.
     # 28:18; Eze 28:13|
       The word {yahalom} may mean the diamond, from {halam,} to
       beat, smite, because of its extreme hardness, by which it
       will beat to pieces the other stones.  It is a fine pellucid
       substance never debased with any admixture of other matter;
       susceptible of elegant tinges from metal-line particles;
       giving fire with steel; not fermenting with acid menstrua;
       scarcely calcinable by any degree of fire; and of one simple
       and permanent appearance in all lights.  It is the hardest
       and most valuable of all gems; when pure, perfectly clear and
       pellucid as the clearest water, and eminently distinguished
       from all other substances by its vivid splendour, and the
       brightness of its reflections.